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We show that the edges crossed by a random walk in a network form a recurrent graph a.s. In fact, the same is true when those edges are weighted by the number of crossings.

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Itai Benjamini , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Russell Lyons

Vertex-reinforced random walk is defined in Pemantle's (1988) thesis; it is a random walk that is biased to visit sites it has already visited a lot. We show that this reinforcement scheme, in contrast to the scheme of edge-reinforcement,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Robin Pemantle , Stanislav Volkov

In this short paper, we consider the Once-reinforced random walk with reinforcement parameter $a$ on trees with bounded degree which are transient for the simple random walk. On each of these trees, we prove that there exists an explicit…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Daniel Kious , Vladas Sidoravicius

The goal is to show that an edge-reinforced random walk on a graph of bounded degree, with reinforcement weight function $W$ taken from a general class of reciprocally summable reinforcement weight functions, traverses a random attracting…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Vlada Limic , Pierre Tarrès

In this paper, we consider the linearly reinforced and the once-reinforced random walk models in the transient phase on trees. We show the large deviations for the upper tails for both models. We also show the exponential decay for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Yu Zhang

We introduce a one-dimensional random walk, which at each step performs a reinforced dynamics with probability $\theta$ and with probability $1 - \theta$, the random walk performs a step independent of the past. We analyse its asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Manuel González-Navarrete , Ranghely Hernández

A survey of reinforced random walk, with emphasis on the linear case.

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-03 Gady Kozma

A step-reinforced random walk is a discrete-time non-Markovian process with long range memory. At each step, with a fixed probability p, the positively step-reinforced random walk repeats one of its preceding steps chosen uniformly at…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Zhishui Hu , Yiting Zhang

We prove an invariance principle for linearly edge reinforced random walks on $\gamma$-stable critical Galton-Watson trees, where $\gamma \in (1,2]$ and where the edge joining $x$ to its parent has rescaled initial weight $d(\rho,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 George Andriopoulos , Eleanor Archer

We show transience of the edge-reinforced random walk (ERRW) for small reinforcement in dimension d greater than 2. This proves the existence of a phase transition between recurrent and transient behavior, thus solving an open problem…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-02 Margherita Disertori , Christophe Sabot , Pierre Tarrès

We give a short proof of Theorem 2.1 from [MR07], stating that the linearly edge reinforced random walk (ERRW) on a locally finite graph is recurrent if and only if it returns to its starting point almost surely. This result was proved in…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-30 Laurent Tournier

A Random Walk in Changing Environment (RWCE) is a weighted random walk on a locally finite, connected graph $G$ with random, time-dependent edge-weights. This includes self-interacting random walks, where the edge-weights depend on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Bryan Park , Souvik Ray

We present the first rigorous quantitative analysis of once-reinforced random walks (ORRW) on general graphs, based on a novel change of measure formula.~This enables us to prove large deviations estimates for the range of the walk to have…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Andrea Collevecchio , Pierre Tarrès

This paper is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of the reinforced elephant random walk (RERW) using a martingale approach. In the diffusive and critical regimes, we establish the almost sure convergence, the law of iterated logarithm and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Lucile Laulin

The random walk with choice is a well known variation to the random walk that first selects a subset of $d$ neighbours nodes and then decides to move to the node which maximizes the value of a certain metric; this metric captures the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-07-20 John Alexandris , Gregory Karagiorgos 'and' Ioannis Stavrakakis

We revisit an unpublished paper of Vervoort (2002) on the once reinforced random walk, and prove that this process is recurrent on any graph of the form $\mathbb{Z}\times \Gamma$, with $\Gamma$ a finite graph, for sufficiently large…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Daniel Kious , Bruno Schapira , Arvind Singh

We study the once-reinforced random walk on $\mathbb Z^d$, which is a self-interacting walk that has a higher probability to cross edges that were already visited. We prove that the walk is transient when $d\ge 6$ and when the reinforcement…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dor Elboim , Gady Kozma

The models surveyed include generalized P\'{o}lya urns, reinforced random walks, interacting urn models, and continuous reinforced processes. Emphasis is on methods and results, with sketches provided of some proofs. Applications are…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Pemantle

We focus on recurrent random walks in random environment (RWRE) on Galton-Watson trees. The range of these walks, that is the number of sites visited at some fixed time, has been studied in three different papers [AC18], [AdR17] and [dR16].…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Pierre Andreoletti , Roland Diel

In this paper, we consider a once-reinforced random walk on the half-line, and give the limiting behaviors of all the moments of its range.

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Zechun Hu , Ting Ma , Renming Song , Li Wang