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From the long jump random walk to the fractional Laplacian

Probability 2009-01-22 v1

Abstract

This note illustrates how a simple random walk with possibly long jumps is related to fractional powers of the Laplace operator. The exposition is elementary and self-contained.

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@article{arxiv.0901.3261,
  title  = {From the long jump random walk to the fractional Laplacian},
  author = {Enrico Valdinoci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.3261},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Submitted to the Probability Surveys (http://www.i-journals.org/ps/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)