Regenerative process

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A stochastic process \mathbf X=\{X(t):t\geq 0\} is a regenerative process if there is a random time τ such \{ X(\tau+t): t \geq 0 \} has the same distribution of \mathbf X and is independent of the past \{ X(t): 0 \leq t < \tau \}.