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Algebraic random walks (ARW) and quantum mechanical random walks (QRW) are investigated and related. Based on minimal data provided by the underlying bialgebras of functions defined on e. g the real line R, the abelian finite group Z_N, and…

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Consider a random walk on a tree $G=(V,E)$. For $v,w \in V$, let the hitting time $H(v,w)$ denote the expected number of steps required for the random walk started at $v$ to reach $w$, and let $\pi_v = \mathrm{deg}(v)/2|E|$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Andrew Beveridge , Ben Bridenbaugh , Ari Holcombe Pomerance

Random walks are a fundamental tool for analyzing realistic complex networked systems and implementing randomized algorithms to solve diverse problems such as searching and sampling. For many real applications, their actual effect and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

While one-dimensional Markov processes are well understood, going to higher dimensions there are only a few analytically solved Ising-like models, in practice requiring to use relatively costly, uncontrollable and inaccurate Monte-Carlo…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jarek Duda

Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRW) are widely used to coarse-grain the evolution of systems jumping from a metastable sub-set of their configuration space, or trap, to another via rare intermittent events. The multi-scaled behavior typical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 Paolo Sibani

The step-reinforced random walk (SRRW), where each step may replicate a randomly chosen past step, exhibits complex dependencies on the history. This paper introduces a generalized SRRW on groups, incorporating arbitrary transformations of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Yuval Peres , Shuo Qin

As written by statistician George Box "All models are wrong, but some are useful", standard diffusion derivation or Feynman path ensembles use nonphysical infinite velocity/kinetic energy nowhere differentiable trajectories - what seems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-23 Jarek Duda

In this paper we study the behavior of a continuous time random walk (CTRW) on a stationary and ergodic time varying dynamic graph. We establish conditions under which the CTRW is a stationary and ergodic process. In general, the stationary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Daniel Figueiredo , Philippe Nain , Bruno Ribeiro , Edmundo de Souza e Silva , Don Towsley

In this paper, we present an overview of different types of random walk strategies with local and non-local transitions on undirected connected networks. We present a general approach to analyzing these strategies by defining the dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-08 A. P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

Random walk sampling methods have been widely used in graph sampling in recent years, while it has bias towards higher degree nodes in the sample. To overcome this deficiency, classical methods such as MHRW design weighted walking by…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-27 Xiao Qi

Reinforced random walks are random walks on graphs whose transition probabilities along edges from a vertex are proportional to the weights of those edges, but where the weight of an edge evolves in a way that depends on the past traversals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Qinghua , Ding , Venkat Anantharam

We offer theoretical explanations for some recent observations in numerical simulations of quantum random walks (QRW). Specifically, in the case of a QRW on the line with one particle (walker) and two entangled coins, we explain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Chaobin Liu , Nelson Petulante

We consider random walks on discrete state spaces, such as general undirected graphs, where the random walkers are designed to approximate a target quantity over the network topology via sampling and neighborhood exploration in the form of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Vishwaraj Doshi , Jie Hu , Do Young Eun

We consider the activated random walk (ARW) model where particles follow the path of a general Markov process on a general graph. We prove ARW dominates a simpler process, multiple source internal aggregation (MSIA), and use this to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Eric Shellef

We investigate the dynamics of simultaneous random walkers with resetting on networks and derive exact analytical expressions for the mean first-encounter times of Markovian random walkers. Specifically, we consider two cases for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Daniel Rubio-Gómez , Alejandro P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

In this paper, we analyse a sub-class of two-dimensional homogeneous nearest neighbour (simple) random walk restricted on the lattice using the matrix geometric approach. In particular, we first present an alternative approach for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Stella Kapodistria , Zbigniew Palmowski

The elephant random walk (ERW) is a microscopic, one-dimensional, discrete-time, non-Markovian random walk, which can lead to anomalous diffusion due to memory effects. In this study, I propose a multi-dimensional generalization in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-02 Vitor M. Marquioni

We consider Activated Random Walk (ARW), a particle system with mass conservation, on the cycle $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$. One starts with a mass density $\mu>0$ of initially active particles, each of which performs a simple symmetric random…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Riddhipratim Basu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Christopher Hoffman , Jacob Richey

We consider the dynamics of a separable Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) when the random walker is biased by a velocity field in a uniformly growing domain. Concrete examples for such domains include growing biological cells or lipid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 F. Le Vot , E. Abad , R. Metzler , S. B. Yuste

We study a general continuous-time random walk (CTRW), by including non-Markovian cases and L\'evy flights, under complete stochastic resetting to the initial position with an arbitrary law, which can be power-lawed as well as Poissonian.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-11 Fausto Colantoni , Gianni Pagnini