Current fluctuations for independent random walks in multiple dimensions
Abstract
Consider a system of particles evolving as independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random walks. Initial fluctuations in the particle density get translated over time with velocity , the common mean velocity of the random walks. Consider a box centered around an observer who starts at the origin and moves with constant velocity . To observe interesting fluctuations beyond the translation of initial density fluctuations, we measure the net flux of particles over time into this moving box. We call this the ``box-current" process. We generalize this current process to a distribution valued process. Scaling time by and space by gives current fluctuations of order where is the space dimension. The scaling limit of the normalized current process is a distribution valued Gaussian process with given covariance. The limiting current process is equal in distribution to the solution of a given stochastic partial differential equation which is related to the generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.2732,
title = {Current fluctuations for independent random walks in multiple dimensions},
author = {Rohini Kumar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2732},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
31 pages; accepted for publication in Journal of Theoretical Probability