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On Borwein's conjectures for planar uniform random walks

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-11-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Probability

Abstract

Let pn(x)=0J0(xt)[J0(t)]nxtdt p_n(x)=\int_0^\infty J_0(xt)[J_0(t)]^n xt\,\mathrm{d}\, t be Kluyver's probability density for nn-step uniform random walks in the Euclidean plane. Through connection to a similar problem in 2-dimensional quantum field theory, we evaluate the third-order derivative p5(0+) p_5'''(0^{+}) in closed form, thereby giving a new proof for a conjecture of J. M. Borwein. By further analogies to Feynman diagrams in quantum field theory, we demonstrate that pn(x),0x1 p_n(x),0\leq x\leq 1 admits a uniformly convergent Maclaurin expansion for all odd integers n5 n\geq5, thus settling another conjecture of Borwein.

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@article{arxiv.1708.02857,
  title  = {On Borwein's conjectures for planar uniform random walks},
  author = {Yajun Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.02857},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

(v1) 16 pages, 5 TikZ figures. Proof of Borwein's sum rule for ramble integrals $W_n(s)$. An addendum to arXiv:1706.08308 (v2) 17 pages, with updates in references and Theorem 5.1

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