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Let $\{S_n\}$ be a random walk in the domain of attraction of a stable law $\mathcal{Y}$, i.e. there exists a sequence of positive real numbers $(a_n)$ such that $S_n/a_n$ converges in law to $\mathcal{Y}$. Our main result is that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Francesco Caravenna , Loïc Chaumont

Let $\left\{ S_{n},n\geq 0\right\} $ be a random walk whose increment distribution belongs without centering to the domain of attraction of an $% \alpha $-stable law, i.e., there are some scaling constants $a_{n}$ such that the sequence…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Congzao Dong , Elena Dyakonova , Vladimir Vatutin

We consider a certain sequence of random walks. The state space of the n-th random walk is the set of all strict partitions of n (that is, partitions without equal parts). We prove that, as n goes to infinity, these random walks converge to…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Leonid Petrov

Let $X_1, X_2, \ldots$ be a sequence of i.i.d. real-valued random variables with mean zero, and consider the scaled random walk of the form $Y^N_{k+1} = Y^N_{k} + a_N(Y^N_k) X_{k+1}$, where $a_N: \mathbb R \to \mathbb R_+$. We show, under…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Stefan Ankirchner , Thomas Kruse , Mikhail Urusov

Based on their earlier studies of the arcsine law, Pitman and Yor in \cite{PY97} constructed a widely adopted PD($\alpha, \theta)$ family of random mass-partitions with parameters $\alpha \in [0,1),\ \theta+\alpha>0$. We propose an…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Bojan Basrak

The three arcsine laws for Brownian motion are a cornerstone of extreme-value statistics. For a Brownian $B_t$ starting from the origin, and evolving during time $T$, one considers the following three observables: (i) the duration $t_+$ the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-31 Tridib Sadhu , Mathieu Delorme , Kay Jörg Wiese

We consider random walks on the surface of the sphere $S_{n-1}$ ($n \geq 2$) of the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $E_n$, in short a hypersphere. By solving the diffusion equation in $S_{n-1}$ we show that the usual law $<r^2 > \varpropto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Michel Caillol

We study the occurrence of historical behavior for almost every point in the setting of skew products with one-dimensional fiber dynamics. Under suitable ergodic conditions, we establish that a weak form of the arcsine law leads to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Pablo G. Barrientos , Raul R. Chavez

A measure on a locally compact group is called spread out if one of its convolution powers is not singular with respect to Haar measure. Using Markov chain theory, we conduct a detailed analysis of random walks on homogeneous spaces with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Roland Prohaska

We study analytically a simple random walk model on a one-dimensional lattice, where at each time step the walker resets to the maximum of the already visited positions (to the rightmost visited site) with a probability $r$, and with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-30 Satya N. Majumdar , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Gregory Schehr

Let $A_n$ be an $n\times n$ matrix with iid entries distributed as Bernoulli random variables with parameter $p = p_n$. Rudelson and Tikhomirov, in a beautiful and celebrated paper, show that the distribution of eigenvalues of $A_n \cdot…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Ashwin Sah , Julian Sahasrabudhe , Mehtaab Sawhney

The emergence of heavy-tailed statistics in complex systems is conventionally attributed to non-local stochastic jumps or non-Markovian memory. Here, we present a one-dimensional random walk where power-law behaviors arise instead from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Henrique S. Lima , Evaldo M. F. Curado

Many classical randomized algorithms (e.g., approximation algorithms for #P-complete problems) utilize the following random walk algorithm for {\em almost uniform sampling} from a state space $S$ of cardinality $N$: run a symmetric ergodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter C. Richter

Random walks in random scenery are processes defined by $$Z_n:=\sum_{k=1}^n\omega_{S_k}$$ where $S:=(S_k,k\ge 0)$ is a random walk evolving in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and $\omega:=(\omega_x, x\in{\mathbb Z}^d)$ is a sequence of i.i.d. real random…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Julien Poisat

We consider the $N$-particle noncolliding Bernoulli random walk --- a discrete time Markov process in $\mathbb{Z}^{N}$ obtained from a collection of $N$ independent simple random walks with steps $\in\{0,1\}$ by conditioning that they never…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Vadim Gorin , Leonid Petrov

Let $S_n$ be a centered random walk with a finite variance, and define the new sequence $A_n:=\sum_{i=1}^n S_i$, which we call an integrated random walk. We are interested in the asymptotics of $$p_N:=P(\min_{1 \le k \le N} A_k \ge 0)$$ as…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-05-06 Vladislav Vysotsky

In their recent paper [8], G.Hata and the fourth author first gave an example of random iterations of two piecewise linear interval maps without (deterministic) indifferent periodic points for which the arcsine law -- a characterization of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Fumihiko Nakamura , Yushi Nakano , Hisayoshi Toyokawa , Kouji Yano

We consider an elementary model for self-organised criticality, the activated random walk on the complete graph. We introduce a discrete time Markov chain as follows. At each time step, we add an active particle at a random vertex and let…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Antal A. Járai , Christian Mönch , Lorenzo Taggi

Famously, a $d$-dimensional, spatially homogeneous random walk whose increments are non-degenerate, have finite second moments, and have zero mean is recurrent if $d \in \{1,2\}$ but transient if $d \geq 3$. Once spatial homogeneity is…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicholas Georgiou , Mikhail V. Menshikov , Aleksandar Mijatović , Andrew R. Wade

We are interested in the asymptotic behavior of Markov chains on the set of positive integers for which, loosely speaking, large jumps are rare and occur at a rate that behaves like a negative power of the current state, and such that small…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Jean Bertoin , Igor Kortchemski