English
Related papers

Related papers: Generating Functions for Asymmetric Random Walk Pr…

200 papers

Recently, the concept of generating function has been employed in one-loop reduction. For one-loop integrals encompassing arbitrary tensor ranks and higher-pole contributions, the generating function can be decomposed into a tensor part and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-07 Tingfei Li , Yuekai Song , Liang Zhang

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

Sequences are often conveniently encoded in the form of a generating function depending on a formal variable. This note presents two observations that allow one to draw conclusions about the generated sequence from the generating function.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Alex Kasman , Robert Milson

We consider the enumeration of walks on the two dimensional non-negative integer lattice with short steps. Up to isomorphism there are 79 unique two dimensional models to consider, and previous work in this area has used the kernel method,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Stephen Melczer , Mark C. Wilson

We introduce a new class of asymmetric random walks on the one-dimensional infinite lattice. In this walk the direction of the jumps (positive or negative) is determined by a discrete-time renewal process which is independent of the jumps.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Thomas M. Michelitsch , Federico Polito , Alejandro P. Riascos

Working with generating functions, the combinatorics of a recurrence relation can be expressed in a way that allows for more efficient calculation of the quantity. This is true of the Catalan numbers for an ordered binary tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 David Serena , William J Buchanan

By using the matrix formulation of the two-step approach to the distributions of runs, a recursive relation and an explicit expression are derived for the generating function of the joint distribution of rises and falls for multivariate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Yong Kong

In the past 20 years, the enumeration of plane lattice walks confined to a convex cone -- normalized into the first quadrant -- has received a lot of attention, stimulated the development of several original approaches, and led to a rich…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

Germ order is a non-standard stochastic order defined through the comparison of the generating functions of the processes. This order was first introduced for branching random walks with a constant breeding law and independent dispersal of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Daniela Bertacchi , Fabio Zucca

We propose a novel stochastic method to generate paths conditioned to start in an initial state and end in a given final state during a certain time $t_{f}$. These paths are weighted with a probability given by the overdamped Langevin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Henri Orland

We consider planar lattice walks that start from (0,0), remain inthe first quadrant i, j >= 0, and are made of three types of steps: North-East, West and South. These walks are known to have remarkable enumerative and probabilistic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-05 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

Around 2000, Ira Gessel conjectured that the number of lattice walks in the quadrant N^2, starting and ending at the origin (0,0) and taking their steps in {E,NE,W,SW} had a simple hypergeometric form. In the following decade, this problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

We investigate multiscale Gibbs measures from a variational and probabilistic viewpoint, focusing on the structural asymmetry among conditional entropies that characterizes their construction. We show how this asymmetry emerges both from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Francesco Camilli , Pierluigi Contucci , Emanuele Mingione

Restrictions to molecular motion by barriers (membranes) are ubiquitous in biological tissues, porous media and composite materials. A major challenge is to characterize the microstructure of a material or an organism nondestructively using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-11 Dmitry S. Novikov , Els Fieremans , Jens H. Jensen , Joseph A. Helpern

We extend the notion of nonbacktracking walks from unweighted graphs to graphs whose edges have a nonnegative weight. Here the weight associated with a walk is taken to be the product over the weights along the individual edges. We give two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Francesca Arrigo , Desmond J. Higham , Vanni Noferini , Ryan Wood

We derive an exact expression for the probability density of work done on a particle that diffuses in a parabolic potential with a stiffness varying by an arbitrary piecewise constant protocol. Based on this result, the work distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-26 Petr Chvosta , Dominik Lips , Viktor Holubec , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

We propose a generating functional for nonrelativistic gauge invariant actions. In particular, we consider actions without the usual magnetic term. Like in the Born-Infeld theory, there is an upper bound to the electric field strength in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-25 Oleg Andreev

In this paper, we construct families of polynomials defined by recurrence relations related to mean-zero random walks. We show these families of polynomials can be used to approximate $z^n$ by a polynomial of degree $\sim \sqrt{n}$ in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Peter Cowal , Nicholas F. Marshall , Sara Pollock

We introduce a variation of the step-reinforced random walk with general memory. For the diffusive regime, we establish a functional invariance principle and show that, given suitable conditions on the memory sequence, the arising limiting…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-15 Marco Bertenghi , Lucile Laulin

We derive the algebraic generating function for inversion sequences avoiding the patterns $201$ and $210$ by describing a set of succession rules, converting them to a system of generating function equations with one catalytic variable, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Jay Pantone