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Asymptotic shape of the region visited by an Eulerian Walker

Statistical Mechanics 2012-10-10 v2

Abstract

We study an Eulerian walker on a square lattice, starting from an initially randomly oriented background using Monte Carlo simulations. We present evidence that, that, for large number of steps NN, the asymptotic shape of the set of sites visited by the walker is a perfect circle. The radius of the circle increases as N1/3N^{1/3}, for large NN, and the width of the boundary region grows as Nα/3N^{\alpha / 3}, with α=0.40±.05\alpha = 0.40 \pm .05. If we introduce stochasticity in the evolution rules, the mean square displacement of the walker, <RN2>N2ν<R_{N}^{2}> \sim N^{2\nu}, shows a crossover from the Eulerian (ν=1/3\nu = 1/3) to a simple random walk (ν=1/2\nu=1/2) behaviour.

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@article{arxiv.0906.5506,
  title  = {Asymptotic shape of the region visited by an Eulerian Walker},
  author = {Rajeev Kapri and Deepak Dhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.5506},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

7 pages, 11 figures, minor revisions