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We consider a general discrete-time branching random walk on a countable set X. We relate local, strong local and global survival with suitable inequalities involving the first-moment matrix M of the process. In particular we prove that,…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Fabio Zucca

This paper is a collection of recent results on discrete-time and continuous-time branching random walks. Some results are new and others are known. Many aspects of this theory are considered: local, global and strong local survival, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Daniela Bertacchi , Fabio Zucca

We review recent studies demonstrating a nonuniversal (continuously variable) survival exponent for history-dependent random walks, and analyze a new example, the hard movable partial reflector. These processes serve as a simplified models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ronald Dickman , Francisco Fontenele Araujo , Daniel ben-Avraham

Biased lattice random walks (BLRW) are used to model random motion with drift in a variety of empirical situations in engineering and natural systems such as phototaxis, chemotaxis or gravitaxis. When motion is also affected by the presence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-24 Seeralan Sarvaharman , Luca Giuggioli

In this paper we study the probability that a $d$ dimensional simple random walk (or the first $L$ steps of it) covers each point in a nearest neighbor path connecting 0 and the boundary of an $L_1$ ball. We show that among all such paths,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Eviatar B. Procaccia , Yuan Zhang

We are studying the motion of a random walker in two and three dimensional continuum with uniformly distributed jump-length. This is different from conventional Lavy flight. In 2D and 3D continuum, a random walker can move in any direction,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-08 Ajanta Bhowal Acharyya

We prove sharp asymptotic estimates for the rate of escape of the two-dimensional simple random walk conditioned to avoid a fixed finite set. We derive it from asymptotics available for the continuous analogue of this process (cf…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Orphée Collin , Serguei Popov

We consider a discrete time simple symmetric random walk on Z^d, d>=1, where the path of the walk is perturbed by inserting deterministic jumps. We show that for any time n and any deterministic jumps that we insert, the expected number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Lung-Chi Chen , Rongfeng Sun

We review some old and prove some new results on the survival probability of a random walk among a Poisson system of moving traps on Z^d, which can also be interpreted as the solution of a parabolic Anderson model with a random…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-04 Alexander Drewitz , Jürgen Gärtner , Alejandro F. Ramírez , Rongfeng Sun

We consider biased random walks in positive random conductances on the d-dimensional lattice in the zero-speed regime and study their scaling limits. We obtain a functional Law of Large Numbers for the position of the walker, properly…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Alexander Fribergh , Daniel Kious

We study the speed of a biased random walk on a percolation cluster on $\Z^d$ in function of the percolation parameter $p$. We obtain a first order expansion of the speed at $p=1$ which proves that percolating slows down the random walk at…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-18 Alexander Fribergh

In this article, a localisation result is proved for the biased random walk on the range of a simple random walk in high dimensions (d \geq 5). This demonstrates that, unlike in the supercritical percolation setting, a slowdown effect…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-05 David Croydon

We consider a random walk among a Poisson system of moving traps on ${\mathbb Z}$. In earlier work [DGRS12], the quenched and annealed survival probabilities of this random walk have been investigated. Here we study the path of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-01 Siva Athreya , Alexander Drewitz , Rongfeng Sun

In this paper, we consider fixed edgelength $n$-step random walks in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We give an explicit construction for the closest closed equilateral random walk to almost any open equilateral random walk based on the geometric median,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-28 Jason Cantarella , Kyle Chapman , Philipp Reiter , Clayton Shonkwiler

The distribution of the first positive position reached by a random walker starting from the origin is fundamental for understanding the statistics of extremes and records in one-dimensional random walks. We present a comprehensive study of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Claude Godrèche , Jean-Marc Luck

We study a one-dimensional sluggish random walk with space-dependent transition probabilities between nearest-neighbour lattice sites. Motivated by trap models of slow dynamics, we consider a model in which the trap depth increases…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Aniket Zodage , Rosalind J. Allen , Martin R. Evans , Satya N. Majumdar

In probability theory, reinforced walks are random walks on a lattice (or more generally a graph) that preferentially revisit neighboring `locations' (sites or bonds) that have been visited before. In this paper, we consider walks with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob G. Foster , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

We study a generalization of the standard trapping problem of random walk theory in which particles move subdiffusively on a one-dimensional lattice. We consider the cases in which the lattice is filled with a one-sided and a two-sided…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Yuste , L. Acedo

The motion of a lazy Pearson walker is studied with different probability ($p$) of jump in two and three dimensions. The probability of exit ($P_e$) from a zone of radius $r_e$, is studied as a function of $r_e$ with different values of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-01 Muktish Acharyya

First passage under restart has recently emerged as a conceptual framework to study various stochastic processes under restart mechanism. Emanating from the canonical diffusion problem by Evans and Majumdar, restart has been shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-01 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Arnab Pal