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Superdiffusive planar random walks with polynomial space-time drifts

Probability 2024-07-03 v2

Abstract

We quantify superdiffusive transience for a two-dimensional random walk in which the vertical coordinate is a martingale and the horizontal coordinate has a positive drift that is a polynomial function of the individual coordinates and of the present time. We describe how the model was motivated through an heuristic connection to a self-interacting, planar random walk which interacts with its own centre of mass via an excluded-volume mechanism, and is conjectured to be superdiffusive with a scale exponent 3/43/4. The self-interacting process originated in discussions with Francis Comets.

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@article{arxiv.2401.07813,
  title  = {Superdiffusive planar random walks with polynomial space-time drifts},
  author = {Conrado da Costa and Mikhail Menshikov and Vadim Shcherbakov and Andrew Wade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07813},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

26 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revision

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:17:15.414Z