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Regenerative subsets of ℝ constitute an analog of classical renewal processes. Limits and intersections of independent regenerative sets are discussed. These ideas are related to the usual quantities associated with subordinators.
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Portions of this work appeared in the author's Ph.D. dissertation, written under the direction of Kenneth J. Hochberg of Case Western Reserve University
Research partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant MCS83-01080
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Fitzsimmons, P.J., Fristedt, B. & Maisonneuve, B. Intersections and limits of regenerative sets. Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie verw Gebiete 70, 157–173 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02451426
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