Extreme value theory, ergodic theory and the boundary between short   memory and long memory for stationary stable processes
  We study the partial maxima of stationary \alpha-stable processes. We relate their asymptotic behavior to the ergodic theoretical properties of the flow. We observe a sharp change in the asymptotic behavior of the sequence of partial maxima as flow changes from being dissipative to being conservative, and argue that this may indicate a change from a short memory process to a long memory process. 
Gennady Samorodnitsky