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Let D(n,p) be the random directed graph on n vertices where each of the n(n-1) possible arcs is present independently with probability p. A celebrated result of Frieze shows that if $p\ge(\log n+\omega(1))/n$ then D(n,p) typically has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-21 Asaf Ferber , Matthew Kwan , Benny Sudakov

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

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

In the randomly-oriented Manhattan lattice, every line in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ is assigned a uniform random direction. We consider the directed graph whose vertex set is $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and whose edges connect nearest neighbours, but only in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Sean Ledger , Bálint Tóth , Benedek Valkó

We consider a variant of random walks on finite groups. At each step, we choose an element from a set of generators ("directions") uniformly, and an integer from a power law ("speed") distribution associated with the chosen direction. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Laurent Saloff-Coste , Yuwen Wang

We define here a \textit{directed edge reinforced random walk} on a connected locally finite graph. As the name suggests, this walk keeps track of its past, and gives a bias towards directed edges previously crossed proportional to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Dirk Erhard , Tertuliano Franco , Guilherme Reis

We establish and generalise several bounds for various random walk quantities including the mixing time and the maximum hitting time. Unlike previous analyses, our derivations are based on rather intuitive notions of local expansion…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Thomas Sauerwald , Luca Zanetti

Techniques of `dynamic renormalization', developed earlier for undirected percolation and the contact model, are adapted to the setting of directed percolation, thereby obtaining solutions of several problems for directed percolation on…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey Grimmett , Philipp Hiemer

We study the recurrence behaviour of random walks on partially oriented honeycomb lattices. The vertical edges are undirected while the orientation of the horizontal edges is random: depending on their distribution, we prove a.s. transience…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Gianluca Bosi , Massimo Campanino

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

We consider two dimensional random walks conditioned to stay in the positive quadrant. Assuming that the increments of the walk have finite second moments and that the drift vector is co-oriented with one of two axes, we construct positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Tuan Anh Nguyen , Vitali Wachtel

A unique sink orientation (USO) is an orientation of the edges of a polytope in which every face contains a unique sink. For a product of simplices $\Delta_{m-1} \times \Delta_{n-1}$, Felsner, G\"artner and Tschirschnitz (2005) characterize…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sandro M. Roch

Below is a method for relating a mixed volume computation for polytopes sharing many facet directions to a symmetric random walk. The example of permutahedra and particularly hypersimplices is expanded upon.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-23 Eric Babson , Einar Steingrimsson

We prove that metric graph with the minimal growth of the number of possible endpoints of a random walk is the union of several linear paths coming out of the same vertex

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 V. L. Chernyshev , A. A. Tolchennikov

In this paper, we consider fixed edgelength $n$-step random walks in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We give an explicit construction for the closest closed equilateral random walk to almost any open equilateral random walk based on the geometric median,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-28 Jason Cantarella , Kyle Chapman , Philipp Reiter , Clayton Shonkwiler

We consider a directed random walk on the backbone of the infinite cluster generated by supercritical oriented percolation, or equivalently the space-time embedding of the ``ancestral lineage'' of an individual in the stationary…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-06-18 Matthias Birkner , Jiri Cerny , Andrej Depperschmidt , Nina Gantert

We give a partial description of the (s,t)-p-path polytope of a directed graph D which is the convex hull of the incidence vectors of simple directed (s,t)-paths in D of length p. First, we point out how the (s,t)-p-path polytope is located…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rüdiger Stephan

We consider the problem of decomposing the edges of a directed graph into as few paths as possible. There is a natural lower bound for the number of paths needed in an edge decomposition of a directed graph $D$ in terms of its degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Alberto Espuny Díaz , Viresh Patel , Fabian Stroh

The edges of the characteristic imset polytope, $\operatorname{CIM}_p$, were recently shown to have strong connections to causal discovery as many algorithms could be interpreted as greedy restricted edge-walks, even though only a strict…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Svante Linusson , Petter Restadh , Liam Solus

We study a discrete time self interacting random process on graphs, which we call Greedy Random Walk. The walker is located initially at some vertex. As time evolves, each vertex maintains the set of adjacent edges touching it that have not…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Tal Orenshtein , Igor Shinkar