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Place an active particle at the root of a $d$-ary tree and a single dormant particle at each non-root site. In discrete time, active particles move towards the root with probability $p$ and, otherwise, away from the root to a uniformly…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Emma Bailey , Matthew Junge , Jiaqi Liu

In this work we prove a shape theorem for a growing set of Simple Random Walks (SRWs), known as frog model. The dynamics of this process is described as follows: There are some active particles, which perform independent SRWs, and sleeping…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 O. S. M. Alves , S. Yu. Popov , F. P. Machado

We consider a random interacting particle system, known as the frog model, on infinite Galton-Watson trees allowing offspring zero and one. The system starts with one awake particle (frog) at the root of the tree and a random number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Sebastian Müller , Gundelinde Maria Wiegel

We consider the frog model with Bernoulli initial configuration, which is an interacting particle system on the multidimensional lattice consisting of two states of particles: active and sleeping. Active particles perform independent simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Van Hao Can , Naoki Kubota , Shuta Nakajima

We study random walks on the giant component of Hyperbolic Random Graphs (HRGs), in the regime when the degree distribution obeys a power law with exponent in the range $(2,3)$. In particular, we first focus on the expected time for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marcos Kiwi , Markus Schepers , John Sylvester

We show that the probability that a simple random walk covers a finite, bounded degree graph in linear time is exponentially small. More precisely, for every D and C, there exists a=a(D,C)>0 such that for any graph G, with n vertices and…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Itai Benjamini , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Ben Morris

The cover time is defined as the time needed for a random walker to visit every site of a confined domain. Here, we focus on persistent random walks, which provide a minimal model of random walks with short range memory. We derive the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Marie Chupeau , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez

We consider an interacting particle system on trees known as the frog model: initially, a single active particle begins at the root and i.i.d.~$\mathrm{Poiss}(\lambda)$ many inactive particles are placed at each non-root vertex. Active…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Marcus Michelen , Josh Rosenberg

We study a random walk that prefers tou se unvisited edges in the context of random cubic graphs. We establish asymptotically correct estimates for the vertex and edge cover times, these being $\approx n\log n$ and $\approx \frac32n\log n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze , Tony Johansson

We study the cover time of a random graph chosen uniformly at random from the set of graphs with vertex set $[n]$ and degree sequence $\mathbf{d}=(d_i)_{i=1}^n$. In a previous work, the asymptotic cover time was obtained under a number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze , Eyal Lubetzky

The cover time of a finite connected graph is the expected number of steps needed for a simple random walk on the graph to visit all the vertices. It is known that the cover time on any n-vertex, connected graph is at least (1+o(1)) n…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Johan Jonasson , Oded Schramm

We examine a system of interacting random walks with leftward drift on $\mathbb{Z}$, which begins with a single active particle at the origin and some distribution of inactive particles on the positive integers. Inactive particles become…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-26 Josh Rosenberg

Consider a population of infinitesimally small frogs on the real line. Initially the frogs on the positive half-line are dormant while those on the negative half-line are awake and move according to the heat flow. At the interface, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Achim Klenke , Leonid Mytnik

We present a deterministic algorithm that given a tree T with n vertices, a starting vertex v and a slackness parameter epsilon > 0, estimates within an additive error of epsilon the cover and return time, namely, the expected time it takes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-11 Uriel Feige , Ofer Zeitouni

A two-type version of the frog model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ is formulated, where active type $i$ particles move according to lazy random walks with probability $p_i$ of jumping in each time step ($i=1,2$). Each site is independently assigned a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Maria Deijfen , Timo Hirscher , Fabio Lopes

We derive an exact closed-form analytical expression for the distribution of the cover time for a random walk over an arbitrary graph. In special case, we derive simplified exact expressions for the distributions of cover time for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Nikola Zlatanov , Ljupco Kocarev

The rotor router model is a popular deterministic analogue of a random walk on a graph. Instead of moving to a random neighbor, the neighbors are served in a fixed order. We examine how fast this "deterministic random walk" covers all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Tobias Friedrich , Thomas Sauerwald

We consider a branching random walk on a $d$-ary tree of height $n$ ($n \in \mathbb{N}$), under the presence of a hard wall which restricts each value to be positive, where $d$ is a natural number satisfying $d\geqslant2$. The question of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Rishideep Roy

We provide conditions that classify cover times for sequences of random walks on random graphs into two types: One type (Type 1) is the class of cover times that are of the order of the maximal hitting times scaled by the logarithm of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Yoshihiro Abe

Consider a random walk on a tree $G=(V,E)$. For $v,w \in V$, let the hitting time $H(v,w)$ denote the expected number of steps required for the random walk started at $v$ to reach $w$, and let $\pi_v = \mathrm{deg}(v)/2|E|$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Andrew Beveridge , Ben Bridenbaugh , Ari Holcombe Pomerance