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Windings of planar random walks and averaged Dehn function

Probability 2009-12-07 v3 Group Theory Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove a sharp estimate on the expected value of the integral of the index of a simple random walk on the square or triangular lattice. This gives new lower bounds on the averaged Dehn function, which measures the expected area needed to fill a random curve with a disc.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2192,
  title  = {Windings of planar random walks and averaged Dehn function},
  author = {Bruno Schapira and Robert Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2192},
  year   = {2009}
}
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