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The subleading order of two dimensional cover times

Probability 2014-05-06 v1

Abstract

The epsilon-cover time of the two dimensional torus by Brownian motion is the time it takes for the process to come within distance epsilon>0 from any point. Its leading order in the small epsilon-regime has been established by Dembo, Peres, Rosen and Zeitouni [Ann. of Math., 160 (2004)]. In this work, the second order correction is identified. The approach relies on a multi-scale refinement of the second moment method, and draws on ideas from the study of the extremes of branching Brownian motion.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0888,
  title  = {The subleading order of two dimensional cover times},
  author = {David Belius and Nicola Kistler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0888},
  year   = {2014}
}

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72 pages, 6 figures