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We study a scenario under which variable step random walks give anomalous statistics. We begin by analyzing the Martingale Central Limit Theorem to find a sufficient condition for the limit distribution to be non-Gaussian. We note that the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Gemunu H. Gunaratne , Joseph L. McCauley , Matthew Nicol , Andrei Torok

An ordinal pattern for a finite sequence of real numbers is a permutation that records the relative positions in the sequence. For random walks with steps drawn uniformly from $[-1,1]$, we show an ordinal pattern occurs with probability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Hugh Denoncourt

In this work, we study the effect of a moving detector on a discrete time one dimensional Quantum Random Walk where the movement is realized in the form of hopping/shifts. The occupation probability $f(x,t;n,s)$ is estimated as the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-10 Md Aquib Molla , Sanchari Goswami

We consider the distribution of the duration time, the time elapsed since it began, of a diffusion process given its present position, under the assumption that the process began at the origin. For unbiased diffusion, the distribution does…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-28 Hernán Larralde

We consider a mortal random walker on a family of hierarchical graphs in the presence of some trap sites. The configuration comprising the graph, the starting point of the walk, and the locations of the trap sites is taken to be exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 V. Balakrishnan , E. Abad , T. Abil , J. J. Kozak

We establish scaling limits for the random walk whose state space is the range of a simple random walk on the four-dimensional integer lattice. These concern the asymptotic behaviour of the graph distance from the origin and the spatial…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-08 David A. Croydon , Daisuke Shiraishi

We survey recent results on some one- and two-dimensional patterns generated by random permutations of natural numbers. In the first part, we discuss properties of random walks, evolving on a one-dimensional regular lattice in discrete time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Oshanin , R. Voituriez , S. Nechaev , O. Vasilyev , F. Hivert

We consider an active run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in $d$ dimensions, starting from the origin and evolving over a time interval $[0,t]$. We examine three different models for the dynamics of the RTP: the standard RTP model with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-29 Francesco Mori , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

We study a class of discrete-time random walks in $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose conditional drift decays polynomially in time and grows polynomially with the distance from the origin to the current position. This class is related to several models…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Ngo P. N. Ngoc , Tuan-Minh Nguyen

Random walks of n steps taken into independent uniformly random directions in a d-dimensional Euclidean space (d larger than 1), are named Dirichlet when their step lengths are distributed according to a Dirichlet law. The latter continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-24 Gerard Le Caer

In this paper, we study the discrete-time quantum random walks on a line subject to decoherence. The convergence of the rescaled position probability distribution $p(x,t)$ depends mainly on the spectrum of the superoperator…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Shimao Fan , Zhiyong Feng , Sheng Xiong , Wei-Shih Yang

Lazy quantum walks were presented by Andrew M. Childs to prove that the continuous-time quantum walk is a limit of the discrete-time quantum walk [Commun.Math.Phys.294,581-603(2010)]. In this paper, we discuss properties of lazy quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Dan Li , Michael Mc Gettrick , Wei-Wei Zhang , Ke-Jia Zhang

We study random walks on the giant component of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph ${\cal G}(n,p)$ where $p=\lambda/n$ for $\lambda>1$ fixed. The mixing time from a worst starting point was shown by Fountoulakis and Reed, and independently…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Nathanael Berestycki , Eyal Lubetzky , Yuval Peres , Allan Sly

We consider random walks with continuous and symmetric step distributions. We prove universal asymptotics for the average proportion of the age of the kth longest lasting record for k=1,2,... and for the probability that the record of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Réka Szabó , Bálint Vető

We consider an analogue of the Kac random walk on the special orthogonal group $SO(N)$, in which at each step a random rotation is performed in a randomly chosen 2-plane of $\bR^N$. We obtain sharp asymptotics for the rate of convergence in…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Bob Hough , Yunjiang Jiang

We consider a discrete-time random walk on a one-dimensional lattice with space and time-dependent random jump probabilities, known as the Beta random walk. We are interested in the probability that, for a given realization of the jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-28 Alexander K. Hartmann , Alexandre Krajenbrink , Pierre Le Doussal

Stochastic processes with renewal properties are powerful tools for modeling systems where memory effects and long-time correlations play a significant role. In this work, we study a broad class of renewal processes where a variable's value…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Marco Bianucci , Mauro Bologna , Daniele Lagomarsino-Oneto , Riccardo Mannella

Random walk algorithms are crucial for sampling and approximation problems in statistical physics and theoretical computer science. The mixing property is necessary for Markov chains to approach stationary distributions and is facilitated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Shyam Dhamapurkar , Yuhang Dang , Saniya Wagh , Xiu-Hao Deng

In the past decade, the use of ordinal patterns in the analysis of time series and dynamical systems has become an important and rich tool. Ordinal patterns (otherwise known as a permutation patterns) are found in time series by taking $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Sergi Elizalde , Megan Martinez

Let (Z_n)_{n\in\N_0} be a d-dimensional random walk in random scenery, i.e., Z_n=\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}Y_{S_k} with (S_k)_{k\in\N_0} a random walk in Z^d and (Y_z)_{z\in Z^d} an i.i.d. scenery, independent of the walk. We assume that the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Remco van der Hofstad , Nina Gantert , Wolfgang König