Increase of stable processes

One says thatt>0 is an increase time for a real-valued path if stays above the level (t) immediately after timet, and below (t) immediately before timet. Dvoretzkyet al.,⁽¹⁰⁾ proved that Brownian motion has no increase times a.s. This result is extended here to (strictly) stable processes. Specifically, the probability that a stable processX possesses increase times is 0 if and only ifP(X ₁0)1/2.