Random locations of periodic stationary processes
In this paper we consider a large family of random locations, called intrinsic location functionals, of periodic stationary processes. This family includes but is not limited to the location of the path supremum, the first hitting time, and the last hitting time. We first show that the set of all possible densities of intrinsic location functionals for periodic stationary processes is the convex hull generated by a specific group of density functions. Next, we focus on two special types of intrinsic locations, the invariant and the first-time intrinsic locations. For the former, we show that the density has a uniform lower bound, and the corresponding distribution can always be constructed via the location of the path supremum. For the latter, the structure of the set of the densities is closely related to the concept of joint mixability.