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We introduce a new self-interacting random walk on the integers in a dynamic random environment and show that it converges to a pure diffusion in the scaling limit. We also find a lower bound on the diffusion coefficient in some special…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Majid Hosseini , Krishnamurthi Ravishankar

We study the simple random walk on stochastic hyperbolic half planar triangulations constructed in Angel and Ray [3]. We show that almost surely the walker escapes the boundary of the map in positive speed and that the return probability to…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-08-20 Omer Angel , Asaf Nachmias , Gourab Ray

We consider a ballistic random walk in an i.i.d. random environment that does not allow retreating in a certain fixed direction. We prove an invariance principle (functional central limit theorem) under almost every fixed environment. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Firas Rassoul-Agha , Timo Seppäläinen

We introduce a continuous-time random walk model on an infinite multilayer structure inspired by transportation networks. Each layer is a copy of $\mathbb{R}^d$, indexed by a non-negative integer. A walker moves within a layer by means of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Alessandra Bianchi , Marco Lenci , Françoise Pène

We consider the motion of a particle on a Galton Watson tree, when the probabilities of jumping from a vertex to any one of its neighbours is determined by a random process. Given the tree, positive weights are assigned to the edges in such…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-02 A. D. Barbour , A. Collevecchio

For a generalized step reinforced random walk, starting from the origin, the first step is taken according to the first element of an innovation sequence. Then in subsequent epochs, it recalls a past epoch with probability proportional to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Aritra Majumdar , Krishanu Maulik

We demonstrate the presence of chaos in stochastic simulations that are widely used to study biodiversity in nature. The investigation deals with a set of three distinct species that evolve according to the standard rules of mobility,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 D. Bazeia , M. B. P. N. Pereira , A. V. Brito , B. F. de Oliveira , J. G. G. S. Ramos

We consider several variants of a class of random walks whose increment distributions depend on the average value of the process over its most recent $N$ steps. We investigate the speed of the process, and in particular, the limiting speed…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Ross G. Pinsky

An excited random walk is a non-Markovian extension of the simple random walk, in which the walk's behavior at time $n$ is impacted by the path it has taken up to time $n$. The properties of an excited random walk are more difficult to…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Mike Cinkoske , Joe Jackson , Claire Plunkett

The investigation of random walks is central to a variety of stochastic processes in physics, chemistry, and biology. To describe a transport phenomenon, we study a variant of the one-dimensional persistent random walk, which we call a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-19 Seung Ki Baek , Hawoong Jeong , Seung-Woo Son , Beom Jun Kim

We consider a continuous-time random walk on a regular tree of finite depth and study its favorite points among the leaf vertices. For the walk started from a leaf vertex and stopped upon hitting the root we prove that, in the limit as as…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Marek Biskup , Oren Louidor

In this article we consider a natural class of random walks on free products of graphs, which arise as convex combinations of random walks on the single factors. From the works of Gilch [6,7] it is well-known that for these random walks the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Lorenz A. Gilch

The Tree Builder Random Walk is a special random walk that evolves on trees whose size increases with time, randomly and depending upon the walker. After every s steps of the walker, a random number of vertices are added to the tree and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Giulio Iacobelli , Rodrigo Ribeiro , Glauco Valle , Leonel Zuaznabar

In this work, we discuss the smoothly amnesia-reinforced multidimensional elephant random walk (MARW). The scaling limit of the MARW is shown to exist in the diffusive, critical and superdiffusive regimes. We also establish the almost sure…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Jiaming Chen , Lucile Laulin

Random walks are the simplest way to explore or search a graph, and have revealed a very useful tool to investigate and characterize the structural properties of complex networks from the real world, e.g. they have been used to identify the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Timoteo Carletti , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Vito Latora

We study an elementary Markov process on graphs based on electric flow sampling (elfs). The elfs process repeatedly samples from an electric flow on a graph. While the sinks of the flow are fixed, the source is updated using the electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Simon Apers , Stephen Piddock

In a step reinforced random walk, at each integer time and with a fixed probability p $\in$ (0, 1), the walker repeats one of his previous steps chosen uniformly at random, and with complementary probability 1 -- p, the walker makes an…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Jean Bertoin

We used the random walk to model the problem of reserves. The classic case of a stochastic process is the example of random walks, which are used to study a set of phenomena and, particularly, as in this article, models of reserves…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira , José António Filipe

In this article, we consider a branching random walk on the real-line where displacements coming from the same parent have jointly regularly varying tails. The genealogical structure is assumed to be a supercritical Galton-Watson tree,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Ayan Bhattacharya

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