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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

We show that the transience or recurrence of a random walk in certain random environments on an arbitrary infinite locally finite tree is determined by the branching number of the tree, which is a measure of the average number of branches…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robin Pemantle , Russell Lyons

Quantum walks are well-known for their ballistic dispersion, traveling $\Theta(t)$ away in $t$ steps, which is quadratically faster than a classical random walk's diffusive spreading. In physical implementations of the walk, however, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-25 Thomas G. Wong

This study aims to construct a stochastic process called "Brownian house-moving," which is a Brownian bridge conditioned to stay between two curves. To construct this process, statements are prepared on the weak convergence of conditioned…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Kensuke Ishitani , Daisuke Hatakenaka , Keisuke Suzuki

Simple random walks on various types of partially horizontally oriented regular lattices are considered. The horizontal orientations of the lattices can be of various types (deterministic or random) and depending on the nature of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Massimo Campanino , Dimitri Petritis

In this paper we prove an analogue of the Koml\'os-Major-Tusn\'ady (KMT) embedding theorem for random walk bridges. The random bridges we consider are constructed through random walks with i.i.d jumps that are conditioned on the locations…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Evgeni Dimitrov , Xuan Wu

In a previous work, the first and third authors studied a random knot model for all two-bridge knots using billiard table diagrams. Here we present a closed formula for the distribution of the crossing numbers of such random knots. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Moshe Cohen , Chaim Even-Zohar , Sunder Ram Krishnan

We obtain expected number of arrivals, absorption probabilities and expected time until absorption for an asymmetric discrete random walk on a graph in the presence of multiple function barriers. On each edge of the graph and in each vertex…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Theo van Uem

We derive asymptotics for the quenched probability that a critical branching Brownian motion killed at a small rate in Poissonian obstacles exits a large domain. Results are formulated in terms of the solution to a semilinear partial…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-18 Jean-Francois Le Gall , Amandine Veber

Fractional Brownian motion is a self-affine, non-Markovian and translationally invariant generalization of Brownian motion, depending on the Hurst exponent $H$. Here we investigate fractional Brownian motion where both the starting and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-09 Mathieu Delorme , Kay Jörg Wiese

Consider two random walks on $\mathbb{Z}$. The transition probabilities of each walk is dependent on trajectory of the other walker i.e. a drift $p>1/2$ is obtained in a position the other walker visited twice or more. This simple model has…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Noam Berger , Eviatar B. Procaccia

The diffusion of a particle in a crowded environment typically proceeds through three regimes: for very short times the particle diffuses freely until it collides with an obstacle for the first time, while for very long times diffusion the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Nguiya P. Neo , Gary W. Slater

We analyze the dynamics of Brownian ratchets in a confined environment. The motion of the particles is described by a Fick-Jakobs kinetic equation in which the presence of boundaries is modeled by means of an entropic potential. The cases…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-23 Paolo Malgaretti , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , J. Miguel Rubi

We focus on the existence and its characterization of limit for a certain critical branching random walks in time-space random environment in 1 dimension which was introduced by Birkner et.al. Each particle performs simple random walk on…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-25 Makoto Nakashima

In this paper we investigate the behavior of the bridges of a Markov counting process in several directions. We first characterize convexity(concavity) in time of the mean value in terms of lower (upper) bounds on the so called…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Giovanni Conforti

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

Consider a randomly-oriented two dimensional Manhattan lattice where each horizontal line and each vertical line is assigned, once and for all, a random direction by flipping independent and identically distributed coins. A deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Andrea Collevecchio , Kais Hamza , Laurent Tournier

The dependence of electron transfer rates and yields in bridged molecular systems on the bridge length, and the dependence of the zero-bias conduction of molecular wires on wire length are discussed. Both phenomena are controlled by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Spiros Skourtis , Abraham Nitzan

The Arcsine laws of Brownian motion are a collection of results describing three different statistical quantities of one-dimensional Brownian motion: the time at which the process reaches its maximum position, the total time the process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-03 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

Let G be a vertex transitive graph. A study of the range of simple random walk on G and of its bridge is proposed. While it is expected that on a graph of polynomial growth the sizes of the range of the unrestricted random walk and of its…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Itai Benjamini , Roey Izkovsky , Harry Kesten