Exact formula for the 2-marginal second moment function of the multidimensional symmetric Markov random flight
Abstract
We consider the symmetric Markov random flight in the Euclidean space , performed by a particle that moves in with constant finite speed and changes its directions at Poisson-distributed random time instants by choosing the initial and each new direction at random according to the uniform distribution on the unit -dimensional sphere. The 2-marginal second moment function of , corresponding to the multi-index , is examined. An explicit formula for function is obtained. This formula is also valid for all other 2-marginal second moment functions corresponding to any multi-indices of the form . It is also shown that this moment function, under the standard Kac scaling condition, turns into the product of the variances of two coordinates of the -dimensional homogeneous Brownian motion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.26432,
title = {Exact formula for the 2-marginal second moment function of the multidimensional symmetric Markov random flight},
author = {Alexander D. Kolesnik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.26432},
year = {2026}
}
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18 pages, 1 figure