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A step-reinforced random walk is a discrete-time non-Markovian process with long range memory. At each step, with a fixed probability p, the positively step-reinforced random walk repeats one of its preceding steps chosen uniformly at…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zhishui Hu , Yiting Zhang

We develop a technique that provides a lower bound on the speed of transient random walk in a random environment on regular trees. A refinement of this technique yields upper bounds on the first regeneration level and regeneration time. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-03 Andrea Collevecchio , Tom Schmitz

We analyze the Brownian Motion limit of a prototypical unit step reinforced random-walk on the half line. A reinforced random walk is one which changes the weight of any edge (or vertex) visited to increase the frequency of return visits.…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Jerome K. Percus , Ora E. Percus

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

We prove an invariance principle for linearly edge reinforced random walks on $\gamma$-stable critical Galton-Watson trees, where $\gamma \in (1,2]$ and where the edge joining $x$ to its parent has rescaled initial weight $d(\rho,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 George Andriopoulos , Eleanor Archer

As a model of trapping by biased motion in random structure, we study the time taken for a biased random walk to return to the root of a subcritical Galton-Watson tree. We do so for trees in which these biases are randomly chosen,…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-24 Gerard Ben Arous , Alan Hammond

We study the once-reinforced random walk on $\mathbb Z^d$, which is a self-interacting walk that has a higher probability to cross edges that were already visited. We prove that the walk is transient when $d\ge 6$ and when the reinforcement…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dor Elboim , Gady Kozma

In this paper, we consider a once-reinforced random walk on the half-line, and give the limiting behaviors of all the moments of its range.

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Zechun Hu , Ting Ma , Renming Song , Li Wang

We introduce a new type of random walk where the definition of edge reinforcement is very different from the one in the reinforced random walk models studied so far, and investigate its basic properties, such as null/positive recurrence,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-13 Janos Englander , Stanislav Volkov

We calculate the large deviation function of the end-to-end distance and the corresponding extension-versus-force relation for (isotropic) random walks, on and off-lattice, with and without persistence, and in any spatial dimension. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-21 Karel Proesmans , Raul Toral , Christian Van den Broeck

It is well-known that large deviations of random walks driven by independent and identically distributed heavy-tailed random variables are governed by the so-called principle of one large jump. We note that further subtleties hold for such…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-30 Harald Bernhard , Bikramjit Das

We consider the biased random walk on a critical Galton-Watson tree conditioned to survive, and confirm that this model with trapping belongs to the same universality class as certain one-dimensional trapping models with slowly-varying…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-20 David A. Croydon , Alexander Fribergh , Takashi Kumagai

Under suitable moment assumptions, we show that a genuinely d-dimensional step-reinforced random walk undergoes a phase transition between recurrence and transience in dimensions $d=1,2$, and that it is transient for all reinforcement…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Shuo Qin

We prove that the edge-reinforced random walk on the ladder ${\mathbb{Z}\times\{1,2\}}$ with initial weights $a>3/4$ is recurrent. The proof uses a known representation of the edge-reinforced random walk on a finite piece of the ladder as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Franz Merkl , Silke W. W. Rolles

The Tree Builder Random Walk is a special random walk that evolves on trees whose size increases with time, randomly and depending upon the walker. After every s steps of the walker, a random number of vertices are added to the tree and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Giulio Iacobelli , Rodrigo Ribeiro , Glauco Valle , Leonel Zuaznabar

In this paper, we study a class of unbalanced step-reinforced random walks that unifies the elephant random walk, the positively step-reinforced random walk, and the negatively step-reinforced random walk. By establishing a connection with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Zhishui Hu , Liang Dong

We prove a law of large numbers for the range of rotor walks with random initial configuration on regular trees and on Galton-Watson trees. More precisely, we show that on the classes of trees under consideration, even in the case when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Wilfried Huss , Ecaterina Sava-Huss

We study the upper tails for the energy of a randomly charged symmetric and transient random walk. We assume that only charges on the same site interact pairwise. We consider annealed estimates, that is when we average over both randomness,…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Amine Asselah

We show that the transience or recurrence of a random walk in certain random environments on an arbitrary infinite locally finite tree is determined by the branching number of the tree, which is a measure of the average number of branches…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Pemantle , Russell Lyons

We introduce a one-dimensional random walk, which at each step performs a reinforced dynamics with probability $\theta$ and with probability $1 - \theta$, the random walk performs a step independent of the past. We analyse its asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Manuel González-Navarrete , Ranghely Hernández