Necessary and sufficient conditions are given under which all partial limit distributions for properly normalized sample extremes of i.i.d. random variables are proper and nondegenerate. In the process we study a new type of extended regular variation called asymptotic balance that should be useful in other contexts as well.
@article{1176993307,
author = {Haan, L. De and Resnick, S. I.},
title = {Asymptotically Balanced Functions and Stochastic Compactness of Sample Extremes},
journal = {Ann. Probab.},
volume = {12},
number = {4},
year = {1984},
pages = { 588-608},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1176993307}
}
Haan, L. De; Resnick, S. I. Asymptotically Balanced Functions and Stochastic Compactness of Sample Extremes. Ann. Probab., Tome 12 (1984) no. 4, pp. 588-608. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1176993307/