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We present analytical results for the joint probability distribution $P(T_{FR}=t,S=s)$ of first return (FR) times t and of the number of distinct sites s visited by a random walk (RW) on a one dimensional lattice before returning to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-13 Mordechai Gruda , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav , Reimer Kühn

We consider the simple random walk (or P\'olya walk) on the one-dimensional lattice subject to stochastic resetting to the origin with probability $r$ at each time step. The focus is on the joint statistics of the numbers…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

The standard Levy walk is performed by a particle that moves ballistically between randomly occurring collisions, when the intercollision time is a random variable governed by a power-law distribution. During instantaneous collision events…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-03 S. Denisov , V. Zaburdaev , P. Hanggi

We examine a class of random walks in random environments on $\mathbb{Z}$ with bounded jumps, a generalization of the classic one-dimensional model. The environments we study have i.i.d. transition probability vectors drawn from Dirichlet…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Daniel J. Slonim

We study continuous-time (variable speed) random walks in random environments on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\ge2$, where, at time $t$, the walk at $x$ jumps across edge $(x,y)$ at time-dependent rate $a_t(x,y)$. The rates, which we assume stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Marek Biskup , Pierre-François Rodriguez

To what extent is the underlying distribution of a finitely supported unbiased random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ determined by the sequence of times at which the walk returns to the origin? The main result of this paper is that, in various…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Michael J. Larsen

Under some mild condition, a random walk in the plane is recurrent. In particular each trajectory is dense, and a natural question is how much time one needs to approach a given small neighborhood of the origin. We address this question in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-09-18 Françoise Pène , Benoit Saussol

We study simple random walk on the class of random planar maps which can be encoded by a two-dimensional random walk with i.i.d. increments or a two-dimensional Brownian motion via a "mating-of-trees" type bijection. This class includes the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Ewain Gwynne , Jason Miller

The probability of a random walker to return to its starting point in dimensions one and two is unity, a theorem first proven by G. Polya. The recurrence probability -- the probability to be found at the origin at a time t, is a power law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-22 R. Pugatch , O. Firstenberg , M. Shuker , N. Davidson

L\'evy flights and L\'evy walks serve as two paradigms of random walks resembling common features but also bearing fundamental differences. One of the main dissimilarities are discontinuity versus continuity of their trajectories and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-09 Bartlomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Eli Barkai , Alexander A. Dubkov

We consider the distribution of free path lengths, or the distance between consecutive bounces of random particles, in an n-dimensional rectangular box. If each particle travels a distance R, then, as R tends to infinity the free path…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Samuel Holmin , Pär Kurlberg , Daniel Månsson

We investigate active lattice walks: biased continuous time random walks which perform orientational diffusion between lattice directions in one and two spatial dimensions. We study the occupation probability of an arbitrary site on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose , Dipanjan Mandal , Mustansir Barma , Kabir Ramola

In a recent paper we proposed a non-Markovian random walk model with memory of the maximum distance ever reached from the starting point (home). The behavior of the walker is at variance with respect to the simple symmetric random walk…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Maurizio Serva

We present a heuristic derivation of the first passage time exponent for the integral of a random walk [Y. G. Sinai, Theor. Math. Phys. {\bf 90}, 219 (1992)]. Building on this derivation, we construct an estimation scheme to understand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Schwarz , Ron Maimon

A random walk scheme, consisting of alternating phases of regular Brownian motion and L\'evy walks, is proposed as a model for run-and-tumble bacterial motion. Within the continuous-time random walk approach we obtain the long-time and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Felix Thiel , Lutz Schimansky-Geier , Igor M. Sokolov

We investigate the first-passage properties of bursty random walks on a finite one-dimensional interval of length L, in which unit-length steps to the left occur with probability close to one, while steps of length b to the right --…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-28 D. Volovik , S. Redner

We present analytical results for the distribution of first return (FR) times of random walks (RWs) on random regular graphs (RRGs) consisting of $N$ nodes of degree $c \ge 3$. Starting from a random initial node $i$ at time $t=0$, at each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-13 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

Unlike many particle systems, Activated Random Walk has nontrivial behavior even in one spatial dimension. We prove inner and outer bounds on the spread of n activated random walkers from a single source in Z. The inner bound involves a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Lionel Levine , Vittoria Silvestri

The Sparre-Andersen theorem is a remarkable result in one-dimensional random walk theory concerning the universality of the ubiquitous first-passage-time distribution. It states that the probability distribution $\rho_n$ of the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-16 Roberto Artuso , Giampaolo Cristadoro , Mirko Degli Esposti , Georgie Knight

We study the statistical properties of the convex hull of a planar run-and-tumble particle (RTP), also known as the "persistent random walk", where the particle/walker runs ballistically between tumble events at which it changes its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-25 Alexander K Hartmann , Satya N Majumdar , Hendrik Schawe , Grégory Schehr