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The growth exponent for planar loop-erased random walk

Probability 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We give a new proof of a result of Kenyon that the growth exponent for loop-erased random walks in two dimensions is 5/4. The proof uses the convergence of LERW to Schramm-Loewner evolution with parameter 2, and is valid for irreducible bounded symmetric random walks on any two-dimensional discrete lattice.

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@article{arxiv.0806.0357,
  title  = {The growth exponent for planar loop-erased random walk},
  author = {Robert Masson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.0357},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

62 pages, 7 figures; fixed typos, added references

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