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An asymptotic variance of the self-intersections of random walks

Probability 2015-03-17 v1

Abstract

We present a Darboux-Wiener type lemma and apply it to obtain an exact asymptotic for the variance of the self-intersection of one and two-dimensional random walks. As a corollary, we obtain a central limit theorem for random walk in random scenery conjectured by Kesten and Spitzer in 1979.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4845,
  title  = {An asymptotic variance of the self-intersections of random walks},
  author = {George Deligiannidis and Sergey Utev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4845},
  year   = {2015}
}