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We consider a discrete time random walk in one dimension. At each time step the walker jumps by a random distance, independent from step to step, drawn from an arbitrary symmetric density function. We show that the expected positive maximum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alain Comtet , Satya N. Majumdar

We review the existence of the infinite length self-avoiding walk in the half plane and its relationship to bridges. We prove that this probability measure is also given by the limit as $\beta \rightarrow \beta_c-$ of the probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Ben Dyhr , Michael Gilbert , Tom Kennedy , Gregory F. Lawler , Shane Passon

For $d \geq 2$ and $n \in \mathbb{N}$ even, let $p_n = p_n(d)$ denote the number of length $n$ self-avoiding polygons in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ up to translation. The polygon cardinality grows exponentially, and the growth rate $\lim_{n \in…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Alan Hammond

We consider a long-range version of self-avoiding walk in dimension $d > 2(\alpha \wedge 2)$, where $d$ denotes dimension and $\alpha$ the power-law decay exponent of the coupling function. Under appropriate scaling we prove convergence to…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-20 Markus Heydenreich

We consider $d$ random walks $\big(S_n^{(j)}\big)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$, $1\leq j \leq d$, in the same random environment $\omega$ in $\mathbb{Z}$, and a recurrent simple random walk $(Z_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ on $\mathbb{Z}$. We assume that,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Alexis Devulder

We give an algorithm for counting self-avoiding walks or self-avoiding polygons that runs in time $\exp(C\sqrt{n\log n})$ on 2-dimensional lattices and time $\exp(C_dn^{(d-1)/d}\log n)$ on $d$-dimensional lattices for $d>2$.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Samuel Zbarsky

A celebrated problem in numerical analysis is to consider Brownian motion originating at the centre of a $10 \times 1$ rectangle, and to evaluate the ratio of probabilities of a Brownian path hitting the short ends of the rectangle before…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Anthony J Guttmann , Tom Kennedy

Despite its elementary definition, the self-avoiding walk (SAW) poses notoriously hard enumerative problems: exact connective constants are known for only a handful of infinite graphs, notably the honeycomb lattice \cite{ds}. We establish a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Benjamin Grant , Zhongyang Li

We study a self-attractive random walk such that each trajectory of length $N$ is penalised by a factor proportional to $\exp ( - |R_N|)$, where $R_N$ is the set of sites visited by the walk. We show that the range of such a walk is close…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Nathanael Berestycki , Raphael Cerf

We study biased random walk on subcritical and supercritical Galton-Watson trees conditioned to survive in the transient, sub-ballistic regime. By considering offspring laws with infinite variance, we extend previously known results for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Adam Bowditch

We study an annealed model of Uniform Infinite Planar Quadrangulation (UIPQ) with an infinite two-sided self-avoiding walk (SAW), which can also be described as the result of glueing together two independent uniform infinite…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Alessandra Caraceni , Nicolas Curien

We consider a one-dimensional random walk among biased i.i.d. conductances, in the case where the random walk is transient but sub-ballistic: this occurs when the conductances have a heavy-tail at $+\infty$ or at $0$. We prove that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Quentin Berger , Michele Salvi

Weakly self-avoiding walk (WSAW) is a model of simple random walk paths that penalizes self-intersections. On $\mathbb{Z}$, Greven and den Hollander proved in 1993 that the discrete-time weakly self-avoiding walk has an asymptotically…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yucheng Liu

We study self-avoiding walks on restricted square lattices, more precisely on the lattice strips $\mathbb{Z} \times \{-1,0,1\}$ and $\mathbb{Z}\times \{-1,0,1,2\}$. We obtain the value of the connective constant for the $\mathbb{Z} \times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Rumen Dangovski , Chavdar Lalov

We prove that the susceptibility of the continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, in the critical dimension $d=4$, has a logarithmic correction to mean-field scaling behaviour as the critical point is approached, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Roland Bauerschmidt , David C. Brydges , Gordon Slade

We define a new family of self-avoiding walks (SAW) on the square lattice, called weakly directed walks. These walks have a simple characterization in terms of the irreducible bridges that compose them. We determine their generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Axel Bacher , Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

We examine self-avoiding walks in dimensions 4 to 8 using high-precision Monte-Carlo simulations up to length N=16384, providing the first such results in dimensions $d > 4$ on which we concentrate our analysis. We analyse the scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aleksander L. Owczarek , Thomas Prellberg

For $d \geq 2$ and $n \in \mathbb{N}$, let $\mathsf{W}_n$ denote the uniform law on self-avoiding walks beginning at the origin in the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$, and write $\Gamma$ for a $\mathsf{W}_n$-distributed walk. We show that…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-22 Alan Hammond

We consider a self-avoiding walk on the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice, terminally attached to an impenetrable hyperplane at which it can adsorb. When a force is applied the walk can be pulled off the surface and we consider the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 EJ Janse van Rensburg , SG Whittington

This article presents SAWdoubler, a package for counting the total number Z(N) of self-avoiding walks (SAWs) on a regular lattice by the length-doubling method, of which the basic concept has been published previously by us. We discuss an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Raoul D. Schram , Gerard T. Barkema , Rob H. Bisseling