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In random walk theory, it is customary to assume that a given walk is irreducible and/or aperiodic. While these prevailing assumptions make particularly tractable the analysis of random walks and help to highlight their diffusive nature,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Evan Randles , Yutong Yan

We sharpen ellipticity criteria for random walks in i.i.d. random environments introduced by Campos and Ram\'{\i}rez which ensure ballistic behavior. Furthermore, we construct new examples of random environments for which the walk satisfies…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Élodie Bouchet , Alejandro F. Ramírez , Christophe Sabot

We study diffusion on comb lattices of arbitrary dimension. Relying on the loopless structure of these lattices and using first-passage properties, we obtain exact and explicit formulae for the Laplace transforms of the propagators…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Pierre Illien , Olivier Bénichou

We consider a class of self-interacting random walks in deterministic or random environments, known as excited random walks or cookie walks, on the d-dimensional integer lattice. The main purpose of this paper is two-fold: to give a survey…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Elena Kosygina , Martin P. W. Zerner

In this paper we present a computation of the mean first-passage times both for a random walk in a discrete bounded lattice, between a starting site and a target site, and for a Brownian motion in a bounded domain, where the target is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Condamin , Olivier Bénichou , Michel Moreau

We study a one-dimensional random walk among random conductances, with unbounded jumps. Assuming the ergodicity of the collection of conductances and a few other technical conditions (uniform ellipticity and polynomial bounds on the tails…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-08 Christophe Gallesco , Serguei Popov

We study a symmetric random walk (RW) in one spatial dimension in environment, formed by several zones of finite width, where the probability of transition between two neighboring points and corresponding diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-03 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

We show that for each $\lambda \in [\frac{1}{2}, 1]$, there exists a solvable group and a finitely supported measure such that the associated random walk has upper speed exponent $\lambda$.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Jérémie Brieussel

Quantum random walks, - coined, lattice ones, - exhibit ballistic behavior with fascinating asymptotic patterns of the amplitudes. We show that averaging over the coins (using the Haar measure), these patterns blend into a spline. Also, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yuliy Baryshnikov

We give sharp, uniform estimates for the probability that a random walk of n steps on the reals avoids a half-line [y,infinity) given that it ends at the point x. The estimates hold for general continuous or lattice distributions provided…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Kevin Ford

We derive a quenched invariance principle for random walks in random environments whose transition probabilities are defined in terms of weighted cycles of bounded length. To this end, we adapt the proof for random walks among random…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Jean-Dominique Deuschel , Holger Kösters

We consider random walk with bounded jumps on a hypercubic lattice of arbitrary dimension in a dynamic random environment. The environment is temporally independent and spatially translation invariant. We study the rate functions of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Firas Rassoul-Agha , Timo Seppäläinen , Atilla Yilmaz

In the eighties, A. Connes and E. J. Woods made a connection between hyperfinite von Neumann algebras and Poisson boundaries of time dependent random walks. The present paper explains this connection and gives a detailed proof of two…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Jean Renault

We consider random walks in dynamic random environments, with an environment generated by the time-reversal of a Markov process from the oriented percolation universality class. If the influence of the random medium on the walk is small in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Matthias Birkner , Jiří Černý , Andrej Depperschmidt

In this preprint we derive explicit estimates for the asymptotics of the first-passage function for a specific class of random walks on free groups and use them to prove the singularity of the hitting measure for a similarly defined class…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Petr Kosenko

We prove existence of the large deviation principle, with a proper convex rate function, for the distribution of the renormalized distance from the origin of a random walk on a free product of finitely generated groups. As a consequence, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Emilio Corso

Cauchy's formula was originally established for random straight paths crossing a body $B \subset \mathbb{R}^{n}$ and basically relates the average chord length through $B$ to the ratio between the volume and the surface of the body itself.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-03 Alain Mazzolo , Clélia de Mulatier , Andrea Zoia

We study biased random walk on the infinite connected component of supercritical percolation on the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$ for $d\geq 2$. For this model, Fribergh and Hammond showed the existence of an exponent $\gamma$ such that:…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Adam M. Bowditch , David A. Croydon

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices and let $\mu_0$ be a probability measure on $V$. The act of moving to a randomly chosen neighbor leads to a sequence of probability measures supported on $V$ given by $\mu_{k+1} = A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Stefan Steinerberger , Rekha R. Thomas

We study the Ergodic Properties of Random Walks in stationary ergodic environments without uniform ellipticity under a minimal assumption. There are two main components in our work. The first step is to adopt the arguments of Lawler to…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ayan Ghosh