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Three favorite sites occurs infinitely often for one-dimensional simple random walk

Probability 2017-10-26 v2

Abstract

For a one-dimensional simple random walk (St)(S_t), for each time tt we say a site xx is a favorite site if it has the maximal local time. In this paper, we show that with probability 1 three favorite sites occurs infinitely often. Our work is inspired by T\'oth (2001), and disproves a conjecture of Erd\"{o}s and R\'ev\'esz (1984) and of T\'oth (2001).

Cite

@article{arxiv.1612.01983,
  title  = {Three favorite sites occurs infinitely often for one-dimensional simple random walk},
  author = {Jian Ding and Jianfei Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.01983},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

18 pages. Version 2 improves exposition, and adopted the journal template

R2 v1 2026-06-22T17:15:19.801Z