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We study a random walk in random environment on the non-negative integers. The random environment is not homogeneous in law, but is a mixture of two kinds of site, one in asymptotically vanishing proportion. The two kinds of site are (i)…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Ostap Hryniv , Mikhail V. Menshikov , Andrew R. Wade

Motivated by the random Lorentz gas, we study deterministic walks in random environment and show that (in simple, yet relevant, cases) they can be reduced to a class of random walks in random environment where the jump probability depends…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Romain Aimino , Carlangelo Liverani

The quantum walk is a counterpart of the random walk. The 2-state quantum walk in one dimension can be determined by a measure on the unit circle in the complex plane. As for the singular continuous measure, results on the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Ryota Hanaoka , Norio Konno

The iterated random walk is a random process in which a random walker moves on a one-dimensional random walk which is itself taking place on a one-dimensional random walk, and so on. This process is investigated in the continuum limit using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Turban

The rotor walk on a graph is a deterministic analogue of random walk. Each vertex is equipped with a rotor, which routes the walker to the neighbouring vertices in a fixed cyclic order on successive visits. We consider rotor walk on an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Omer Angel , Alexander E. Holroyd

Random walks, and in particular, their first passage times, are ubiquitous in nature. Using direct enumeration of paths, we find the first return time distribution of a 1D random walker, which is a heavy-tailed distribution with infinite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Sarah Kostinski , Ariel Amir

We introduce a class of nearest-neighbor integer random walks in random and non-random media, which includes excited random walks considered in the literature. At each site the random walker has a drift to the right, the strength of which…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin P. W. Zerner

Simple random walks are a basic staple of the foundation of probability theory and form the building block of many useful and complex stochastic processes. In this paper we study a natural generalization of the random walk to a process in…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Bala Rajaratnam , Narut Sereewattanawoot , Doug Sparks , Meng-Hsuan Wu

Rotor walk is a deterministic analogue of random walk. We study its recurrence and transience properties on Z^d for the initial configuration of all rotors aligned. If n particles in turn perform rotor walks starting from the origin, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Laura Florescu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Lionel Levine , Yuval Peres

A new proof is given for the formula for the expected return time of a random walk on a graph. This proof makes use of known relationships between electric resistance and random walks.

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Greg Markowsky

We consider random walk on a finite group $G$ as follows. We can consider $G$ as a group of substitutions. Randomly (i.e. with probability $U(g)=|G|^{-1}$ ) we choose a substitution $g \in G$ and execute it twice in a row, i.e. execute a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Olexandr Vyshnevetskiy , Alexander Bendikov

The distribution of the first positive position reached by a random walker starting at the origin is central to the analysis of extremes and records in one-dimensional random walks. In this work, we present a detailed and self-contained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-21 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

We consider a recurrent RWRE $(X_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}_0}$ on $\mathbb{Z}$ and investigate the quenched return probabilities of the RWRE to the origin for which we state results on their decay in terms of summability. Additionally, we give…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Michael Kochler

We prove a law of large numbers for certain random walks on certain attractive dynamic random environments when initialised from all sites equal to the same state. This result applies to random walks on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with $d\geq1$. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Stein Andreas Bethuelsen , Markus Heydenreich

We prove for an arbitrary one-dimensional random walk with independent increments that the probability of crossing a level at a given time n has the order of square root of n. Moment or symmetry assumptions are not necessary. In removing…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rainer Siegmund-Schultze , Heinrich von Weizsaecker

Let $(Y_n)$ be a sequence of i.i.d. real valued random variables. Reflected random walk $(X_n)$ is defined recursively by $X_0=x \ge 0$, $X_{n+1} = |X_n - Y_{n+1}|$. In this note, we study recurrence of this process, extending a previous…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marc Peigné , Wolfgang Woess

In this paper we consider a particular version of the random walk with restarts: random reset events which bring suddenly the system to the starting value. We analyze its relevant statistical properties like the transition probability and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Miquel Montero , Javier Villarroel

The problem of how many trajectories of a random walker in a potential are needed to reconstruct the values of this potential is studied. We show that this problem can be solved by calculating the probability of survival of an abstract…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simona Cocco , Remi Monasson

We consider biased random walk on regular tree and we obtain the spectral radius, first return probability and $n$-step transition probability.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-15 He Song

As an extension of Polya's classical result on random walks on the square grids ($\Z^d$), we consider a random walk where the steps, while still have unit length, point to different directions. We show that in dimensions at least 4, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Simão Herdade , Van Vu