On the probability distribution of the local times of diagonally operator-self-similar Gaussian fields with stationary increments

Abstract

In this paper we study the local times of vector-valued Gaussian fields that are `diagonally operator-self-similar' and whose increments are stationary. Denoting the local time of such a Gaussian field around the spatial origin and over the temporal unit hypercube by $Z$, we show that there exists $\lambda \in (0,1)$ such that under some quite weak conditions, ${\lim }_{n\to +\infty }\frac{\sqrt[n]{\mathbb{E}(Z^n)}}{n^{\lambda }}$ and ${\lim }_{x\to +\infty }\frac{-\log \mathbb{P}(Z>x)}{x^{\frac{1}{\lambda }}}$ both exist and are strictly positive (possibly $+\infty$). Moreover, we show that if the underlying Gaussian field is `strongly locally nondeterministic', the above limits will be finite as well. These results are then applied to establish similar statements for the intersection local times of diagonally operator-self-similar Gaussian fields with stationary increments.