Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications

We study dynamical Borel–Cantelli properties for the left shift on the binary symbolic space equipped with a stationary determinantal measure generated by a Toeplitz convolution kernel. For sequences of cylinder sets whose measures have a divergent sum, we give sufficient conditions ensuring infinitely many visits almost surely. Under exponential decay of the Fourier coefficients and a uniform nondegeneracy assumption, we also establish the strong Borel–Cantelli property.

We consider an extended variant of the classical coupon collector’s problem with an infinite number of collections. An arriving coupon is placed in the rth collection, $r\ge 0$, if r is the smallest index such that the corresponding collection still does not have a coupon of this type. We derive distributional limit theorems for the number of empty spots in different collections at the time when the 0th collection was completed, as well as after some delay. We also obtain the joint limiting distribution for completion times of different collections. All main results are given in an ultimate infinite-dimensional form in the sense of distributional convergence in ${\mathbb{R}^{\infty }}$. The main tool in the proofs is convergence of specially constructed point processes.