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We study a simple random walk on Z^2 with constraints on the axis. Motivation comes from physics when particles (a gas for example, see [Dal88]) are submitted to a local field. In our case we assume that the particle evolves freely in the…

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We study the path behaviour of a simple random walk on the 2-dimensional comb lattice ${\mathbb C}^2$ that is obtained from ${\mathbb Z}^2$ by removing all horizontal edges off the x-axis. In particular, we prove a strong approximation…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-26 E. Csaki , M. Csorgo , A. Foldes , P. Revesz

We consider a symmetric random walk on the $\nu$-dimensional lattice, whose exit probability from the origin is modified by an antisymmetric perturbation and prove the local central limit theorem for this process. A short-range correction…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Giuseppe Genovese , Renato Lucà

We give a simple non-analytic proof of Biggins' theorem on martingale convergence for branching random walks.

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Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Denis Denisov , Vitali Wachtel

We consider a discrete random walk on a diagonal lattice in two and three dimensions and obtain explicit solutions of absorption probabilities and probabilities of return in several domains. In three dimensions we consider both the cube and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-15 T. J. van Uem

We study the winding behavior of random walks on two oriented square lattices. One common feature of these walks is that they are bound to revolve clockwise. We also obtain quantitative results of transience/recurrence for each walk.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Gianluca Bosi , Yiping Hu , Yuval Peres

We consider the possible visits to visible points of a random walker moving up and right in the integer lattice (with probability $\alpha$ and $1-\alpha$, respectively) and starting from the origin. We show that, almost surely, the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Javier Cilleruelo , José L. Fernández , Pablo Fernández

Monitored recurrence of a one-parameter set of three-state quantum walks on a line is investigated. The calculations are considerably simplified by choosing a suitable basis of the coin space. We show that the Polya number (i.e. the site…

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We derive a local limit theorem for normal, moderate, and large deviations for symmetric simple random walk on the square lattice in dimensions one and two that is an improvement of existing results for points that are particularly distant…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Christian Beneš

We consider a nearest neighbor random walk on the one-dimensional integer lattice with drift towards the origin determined by an asymptotically vanishing function of the number of visits to zero. We show the existence of distinct regimes…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-03 Iddo Ben-Ari , Mathieu Merle , Alexander Roitershtein

Recurrence of a random walk is described by the Polya number. For quantum walks, recurrence is understood as the return of the walker to the origin, rather than the full-revival of its quantum state. Localization for two dimensional quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 M. Stefanak , B. Kollar , T. Kiss , I. Jex

We study the asymptotic behavior of the simple random walk on oriented version of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. The considered latticesare not directed on the vertical axis but unidirectional on the horizontal one, with symmetric random orientations…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Arnaud Le Ny

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…

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We consider the simple random walk (or P\'olya walk) on the one-dimensional lattice subject to stochastic resetting to the origin with probability $r$ at each time step. The focus is on the joint statistics of the numbers…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-04 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

We investigate the first passage statistics of active continuous time random walks with Poissonian waiting time distribution on a one dimensional infinite lattice and a two dimensional infinite square lattice. We study the small and large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose

We prove an estimate for the probability that a simple random walk in a simply connected subset A of Z^2 starting on the boundary exits A at another specified boundary point. The estimates are uniform over all domains of a given inradius.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-15 Michael J. Kozdron , Gregory F. Lawler

The first passage statistics of a continuous time random walker with Poisson distributed jumps on one and two dimensional infinite lattices is investigated. An exact expression for the probability of first return to the origin in one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-13 Stephy Jose

Consider a sequence of independent random isometries of Euclidean space with a previously fixed probability law. Apply these isometries successively to the origin and consider the sequence of random points that we obtain this way. We prove…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Péter Pál Varjú

We consider a discrete-time random walk on the nodes of an unbounded hexagonal lattice. We determine the probability generating functions, the transition probabilities and the relevant moments. The convergence of the stochastic process to a…

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