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In the quarter plane, five lattice path models with unit steps have resisted the otherwise general approach of Fayolle, Rachel, and Kurkova. Here we consider these five models, called the singular models, and prove that the generating…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Stephen Melczer , Marni Mishna

The enumeration of small steps walks confined to the first quadrant of the plane has attracted a lot of attention over the past fifteen years. The associated generating functions are trivariate formal power series in $x,y,t$ where the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Charlotte Hardouin

The purpose of these notes is to introduce some of the problems the enumeration of lattice walks is dedicated to and familiarize with some of the arguments they can be addressed with. We discuss the enumeration of lattice walks, their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Manfred Buchacher

We investigate neighbor-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice in the presence of an adsorbing surface. This class of lattice paths has been less studied using Monte Carlo simulations. Our investigation follows on from our previous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-02 C. J. Bradly , A. L. Owczarek , T. Prellberg

Various lattice path models are reviewed. The enumeration is done using generating functions. A few bijective considerations are woven in as well. The kernel method is often used. Computer algebra was an essential tool. Some results are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Helmut Prodinger

In recent years, computer simulations are playing a fundamental role in unveiling some of the most intriguing features of prime numbers. In this work, we define an algorithm for a deterministic walk through a two-dimensional grid that we…

We derive explicit closed-form expressions for the generating function $C_N(A)$, which enumerates classical closed random walks on square and triangular lattices with $N$ steps and a signed area $A$, characterized by the number of moves in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Li Gan

In [BEI] we introduced a Levy process on a hierarchical lattice which is four dimensional, in the sense that the Green's function for the process equals 1/x^2. If the process is modified so as to be weakly self-repelling, it was shown that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David C. Brydges , John Z. Imbrie

This article deals with the enumeration of directed lattice walks on the integers with any finite set of steps, starting at a given altitude $j$ and ending at a given altitude $k$, with additional constraints such as, for example, to never…

We investigate reflected random walks in the quarter plane, with particular emphasis on the time spent along the reflection boundary axes. Assuming the drift of the random walk lies within the cone, the local time converges -- without the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Viet Hung Hoang , Kilian Raschel

The aim of this survey is to explain, in a self-contained and relatively beginner-friendly manner, the lace expansion for the nearest-neighbor models of self-avoiding walk and percolation that converges in all dimensions above 6 and 9,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-12-18 Satoshi Handa , Yoshinori Kamijima , Akira Sakai

We study the path behavior of the symmetric walk on some special comb-type subsets of ${\mathbb Z}^2$ which are obtained from ${\mathbb Z}^2$ by generalizing the comb having finitely many horizontal lines instead of one.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Endre Csáki , Antónia Földes

If $\mathcal{W}$ is the simple random walk on the square lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$, then $\mathcal{W}$ induces a random walk $\mathcal{W}_G$ on any spanning subgraph $G\subset \mathbb{Z}^2$ of the lattice as follows: viewing $\mathcal{W}$ as a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Juhan Aru , Carla Groenland , Tom Johnston , Bhargav Narayanan , Alex Roberts , Alex Scott

We consider a new model of a branching random walk on a multidimensional lattice with continuous time and one source of particle reproduction and death, as well as an infinite number of sources in which, in addition to the walk, only…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-14 E. Filichkina , E. Yarovaya

We use a one-dimensional random walk on $D$-dimensional hyper-spheres to determine the critical behavior of statistical systems in hyper-spherical geometries. First, we demonstrate the properties of such walk by studying the phase diagram…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Boettcher

Many widely used network centralities are based on counting walks that meet specific criteria. This paper introduces a systematic framework for walk enumeration using generating functions. We introduce a first-passage decomposition that…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-08-14 Yang Sun , Wei Zhao , Junjie Zhou

We use Galois theory of difference equations to study the nature of the generating series of (weighted) walks in the quarter plane with genus zero kernel curve. Using this approach, we prove that the generating series do not satisfy any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Thomas Dreyfus , Charlotte Hardouin , Julien Roques , Michael F. Singer

A discrete-time staggered quantum walk was recently introduced as a generalization that allows to unify other versions, such as the coined and Szegedy's walk. However, it also produces new forms of quantum walks not covered by previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Bruno Chagas , Renato Portugal , Stefan Boettcher , Etsuo Segawa

Spatially homogeneous random walks in $(\mathbb{Z}_{+})^{2}$ with non-zero jump probabilities at distance at most 1, with non-zero drift in the interior of the quadrant and absorbed when reaching the axes are studied. Absorption…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Irina Kurkova , Kilian Raschel

We provide some first experimental data about generating functions of restricted lattice walks with small steps in NN^4.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Manfred Buchacher , Sophie Hofmanninger , Manuel Kauers