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We prove a conjecture of J. Bertoin: a Lévy process has increase times if and only if the integral is finite, where G and H are the distribution functions of the minimum and the maximum of the Lévy process killed at an independent exponential time. The “if” part of the statement had been obtained before by R. Doney. Our proof uses different techniques, from potential theory and the general theory of processes, and is self-contained. Our results also show that if P(X t <0)≤1/2 for all t small enough, then the process does not have increase times.
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Received: 4 May 1995/In revised form: 6 May 1997
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Fourati, S. Points de croissance des processus de Lévy et théorie générale des processus. Probab Theory Relat Fields 110, 13–49 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004400050143
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