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We consider the problem of detecting a random walk on a graph, based on observations of the graph nodes. When visited by the walk, each node of the graph observes a signal of elevated mean, which we assume can be different across different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Dragana Bajovic , José M. F. Moura , Dejan Vukobratovic

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

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

In this work we investigate the dynamics of random walk processes on scale-free networks in a short to moderate time scale. We perform extensive simulations for the calculation of the mean squared displacement, the network coverage and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Lazaros K. Gallos

We prove the limit theorem for paths of random walks with $n$ steps in $\mathbb{R}^d$ as $n$ and $d$ both go to infinity. For this, the paths are viewed as finite metric spaces equipped with the $\ell_p$-metric for $p\in[1,\infty)$. Under…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Bochen Jin

Consider a graph with n nodes and m edges, independent edge weights and lengths, and arbitrary distance demands for node pairs. The spanner problem asks for a minimum-weight subgraph that satisfies these demands via sufficiently short paths…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Fritz Bökler , Markus Chimani , Henning Jasper

This paper explores the joint behaviour of the summands of a random walk when their mean value goes to infinity as its length increases. It is proved that all the summands must share the same value, which extends previous results in the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Michel Broniatowski , Zhansheng Cao

We consider a one-dimensional random walk $S_n$ having i.i.d. increments with zero mean and finite variance. We continue our study of asymptotic expansions for local probabilities $\mathbf P(S_n=x,\tau_0>n)$, which has been started in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Denis Denisov , Alexander Tarasov , Vitali Wachtel

Benjamini, Lyons and Schramm [Random Walks and Discrete Potential Theory (1999) 56-84] considered properties of an infinite graph G, and the simple random walk on it, that are preserved by random perturbations. In this paper we solve…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-10 Dayue Chen , Yuval Peres , Gabor Pete

We pose a new and intriguing question motivated by distributed computing regarding random walks on graphs: How long does it take for several independent random walks, starting from the same vertex, to cover an entire graph? We study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Noga Alon , Chen Avin , Michal Koucky , Gady Kozma , Zvi Lotker , Mark R. Tuttle

We develop a new approach for approximating large independent sets when the input graph is a one-sided spectral expander - that is, the uniform random walk matrix of the graph has its second eigenvalue bounded away from 1. Consequently, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mitali Bafna , Jun-Ting Hsieh , Pravesh K. Kothari

We construct the conditional version of $k$ independent and identically distributed random walks on $\R$ given that they stay in strict order at all times. This is a generalisation of so-called non-colliding or non-intersecting random…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Eichelsbacher , Wolfgang Konig

Graphlets are induced subgraph patterns and have been frequently applied to characterize the local topology structures of graphs across various domains, e.g., online social networks (OSNs) and biological networks. Discovering and computing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Xiaowei Chen , Yongkun Li , Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui

We reduced the large deviation problem for a self-normalized random walk to one for an auxiliary usual bivariate random walk. This enabled us to prove the classical theorem for self-normalized walks by Q.-M. Shao (1997) under slightly more…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Konstantin Borovkov

We study the problem of detecting a random walk on a graph from a sequence of noisy measurements at every node. There are two hypotheses: either every observation is just meaningless zero-mean Gaussian noise, or at each time step exactly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

In fault-tolerant distance labeling we wish to assign short labels to the vertices of a graph $G$ such that from the labels of any three vertices $u,v,f$ we can infer the $u$-to-$v$ distance in the graph $G\setminus \{f\}$. We show that any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Aviv Bar-Natan , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Paweł Gawrychowski , Shay Mozes , Oren Weimann

The longest increasing subsequence (LIS) of a random walk has so far been studied mainly for zero-mean, symmetric step increments. We numerically investigate the LIS of biased Gaussian random walks, with unit-variance increments and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 J. Ricardo G. Mendonça

We consider a model of a random height function with long-range constraints on a discrete segment. This model was suggested by Benjamini, Yadin and Yehudayoff and is a generalization of simple random walk. The random function is uniformly…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Ron Peled , Yinon Spinka

Aldous and Fill (2002) conjectured that the maximum relaxation time for the random walk on a connected regular graph with $n$ vertices is $(1+o(1)) \frac{3n^{2}}{2\pi ^{2}}$. A conjecture by Guiduli and Mohar (1996) predicts the structure…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Maryam Abdi , Ebrahim Ghorbani

A random $n$-lift of a base graph $G$ is its cover graph $H$ on the vertices $[n]\times V(G)$, where for each edge $u v$ in $G$ there is an independent uniform bijection $\pi$, and $H$ has all edges of the form $(i,u),(\pi(i),v)$. A main…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Eyal Lubetzky , Benny Sudakov , Van Vu

We show that for a uniformly irreducible random walk on a graph, with bounded range, there is a Floyd function for which the random walk converges to its corresponding Floyd boundary. Moreover if we add the assumptions, $p^{(n)}(v,w)\leq C…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Panagiotis Spanos