Overlap of two Brownian trajectories: exact results for scaling functions
Mathematical Physics
2016-01-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics
math.MP
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
We consider two random walkers starting at the same time from different points in space separated by a given distance . We compute the average volume of the space visited by both walkers up to time as a function of and and dimensionality of space . For , this volume, after proper renormalization, is shown to be expressed through a scaling function of a single variable . We provide general integral formulas for scaling functions for arbitrary dimensionality . In contrast, we show that no scaling function exists for higher dimensionalities
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@article{arxiv.1402.1409,
title = {Overlap of two Brownian trajectories: exact results for scaling functions},
author = {Mikhail V. Tamm and Vladimir I. Stadnichuk and Alena M. Ilyina and Denis S. Grebenkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1409},
year = {2016}
}