From infinite urn schemes to self-similar stable processes

Abstract

We investigate the randomized Karlin model with parameter $\beta\in(0,1)$, which is based on an infinite urn scheme. It has been shown before that when the randomization is bounded, the so-called odd-occupancy process scales to a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index $\beta/2\in(0,1/2)$. We show here that when the randomization is heavy-tailed with index $\alpha\in(0,2)$, then the odd-occupancy process scales to a $(\beta/\alpha)$-self-similar symmetric $\alpha$-stable process with stationary increments.