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The involution walk is the random walk on $S_n$ generated by involutions with a binomially distributed with parameter $1-p$ number of $2$-cycles. This is a parallelization of the transposition walk. The involution walk is shown in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Megan Bernstein

Our paper gives bounds for the rate of convergence for a class of random walks on the d-dimensional torus generated by a set of n vectors in R^d/Z^d. We give bounds on the discrepancy distance from Haar measure; our lower bound holds for…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Timothy Prescott , Francis Edward Su

In this paper, we propose the Fourier Discrepancy Function, a new discrepancy to compare discrete probability measures. We show that this discrepancy takes into account the geometry of the underlying space. We prove that the Fourier…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-19 Auricchio Gennaro , Codegoni Andrea , Gualandi Stefano , Zambon Lorenzo

We extend results of Y. Benoist and J.-F. Quint concerning random walks on homogeneous spaces of simple Lie groups to the case where the measure defining the random walk generates a semigroup which is not necessarily Zariski dense, but…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 David Simmons , Barak Weiss

We analyse how simple local constraints in two dimensions lead a defect to exhibit robust, non-transient, and tunable, subdiffusion. We uncover a rich dynamical phenomenology realised in ice- and dimer-type models. On the microscopic scale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nilotpal Chakraborty , Markus Heyl , Roderich Moessner

We study a symmetric random walk (RW) in one spatial dimension in environment, formed by several zones of finite width, where the probability of transition between two neighboring points and corresponding diffusion coefficient are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-03 A. V. Nazarenko , V. Blavatska

We consider (random) walks in a multidimensional orthant. Using the idea of universality in probability theory, one can associate a unique polyhedral domain to any given walk model. We use this connection to prove two sets of new results.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Léa Gohier , Emmanuel Humbert , Kilian Raschel

The divergence of a group is a quasi-isometry invariant defined in terms of pairs of points and lengths of paths avoiding a suitable ball around the identity. In this paper we study "random divergence'', meaning the divergence at two points…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Antoine Goldsborough , Alessandro Sisto

We introduce a set of techniques that allow for efficiently generating many independent random walks in the Massive Parallel Computation (MPC) model with space per machine strongly sublinear in the number of vertices. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Krzysztof Onak , Piotr Sankowski

In this paper we present a new and flexible method to show that, in one dimension, various self-repellent random walks converge to self-repellent Brownian motion in the limit of weak interaction after appropriate space-time scaling. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. van der Hofstad , F. den Hollander , W. Koenig

Walk on Spheres algorithms leverage properties of Brownian Motion to create Monte Carlo estimates of solutions to a class of elliptic partial differential equations. We propose a new caching strategy which leverages the continuity of paths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Michael Czekanski , Benjamin Faber , Margaret Fairborn , Adelle Wright , David Bindel

Spherically symmetric random walks in arbitrary dimension $D$ can be described in terms of Gegenbauer (ultraspherical) polynomials. For example, Legendre polynomials can be used to represent the special case of two-dimensional spherically…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 Carl M. Bender , Peter N. Meisinger , Fred Cooper

We use a random walk in the ensemble of impurity configurations to generate a Brownian motion model for energy levels in disordered conductors. Treating arc-length along the random walk as fictitous time, the resulting Langevin equation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. T. Chalker , Igor V. Lerner , Robert A. Smith

We study a one-dimensional random walk whose expected drift depends both on time and the position of a particle. We establish a non-trivial phase transition for the recurrence vs. transience of the walk, and show some interesting…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-16 Mikhail Menshikov , Stanislav Volkov

Some asymptotic properties of a Brownian motion in multifractal time, also called multifractal random walk, are established. We show the almost sure and $L^1$ convergence of its structure function. This is an issue directly connected to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-22 Laurent Duvernet

We consider a variant of random walks on finite groups. At each step, we choose an element from a set of generators ("directions") uniformly, and an integer from a power law ("speed") distribution associated with the chosen direction. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Laurent Saloff-Coste , Yuwen Wang

We study the entropy of the set traced by an $n$-step random walk on $\Z^d$. We show that for $d \geq 3$, the entropy is of order $n$. For $d = 2$, the entropy is of order $n/\log^2 n$. These values are essentially governed by the size of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Itai Benjamini , Gady Kozma , Ariel Yadin , Amir Yehudayoff

We perform a Monte Carlo simulation of two-dimensional N-step interacting self-avoiding walks at the theta point, with lengths up to N=3200. We compute the critical exponents, verifying the Coulomb-gas predictions, the theta-point…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-17 Sergio Caracciolo , Marco Gherardi , Mauro Papinutto , Andrea Pelissetto

This paper examines a stochastic deconvolution problem on compact symmetric spaces which is referred to as decompounding. This involves estimating the step distributions of a random walk, where in addition the number of steps between…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Erik Kennerland

We obtain sharp upper and lower bounds for the moderate deviations of the volume of the range of a random walk in dimension five and larger. Our results encompass two regimes: a Gaussian regime for small deviations, and a stretched…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Amine Asselah , Bruno Schapira