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We study the winding angles of random and self-avoiding walks on square and cubic lattices with number of steps $N$ ranging up to $10^7$. We show that the mean square winding angle $\langle\theta^2\rangle$ of random walks converges to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-07 Yosi Hammer , Yacov Kantor

We consider a simple random walk W_i in 1 or 2 dimensions, in which the walker may choose to stand still for a limited time. The time horizon is n, the maximum consecutive time steps which can be spent standing still is m_n and the goal is…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-18 Kenneth S. Alexander

Rotor walk is a deterministic analogue of random walk. We study its recurrence and transience properties on Z^d for the initial configuration of all rotors aligned. If n particles in turn perform rotor walks starting from the origin, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-13 Laura Florescu , Shirshendu Ganguly , Lionel Levine , Yuval Peres

We consider discrete (time and space) random walks confined to the quarter plane, with jumps only in directions $(i,j)$ with $i+j \geq 0$ and small negative jumps, i.e., $i,j \geq -1$. These walks are called singular, and were recently…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Viet Hung Hoang , Kilian Raschel , Pierre Tarrago

In [1], the authors consider a random walk $(Z_{n,1},\ldots,Z_{n,K+1})\in \mathbb{Z}^{K+1}$ with the constraint that each coordinate of the walk is at distance one from the following one. A functional central limit theorem for the first…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Thibault Espinasse , Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Philippe Nadeau

We construct, for each real number $0\leq \alpha \leq 1$, a random walk on a finitely generated semigroup whose speed exponent is $\alpha$. We further show that the speed function of a random walk on a finitely generated semigroup can be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Guy Blachar , Be'eri Greenfeld

We consider the approximation of the performance of random walks in the quarter-plane. The approximation is in terms of a random walk with a product-form stationary distribution, which is obtained by perturbing the transition probabilities…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-15 Jasper Goseling , Richard J. Boucherie , Jan-Kees van Ommeren

We define a random walk of a particle in $\mathbb{R}^3$ where the space is rotating. The particle is not glued to the space and will collide with it at random times, resulting in changes in its velocity and direction. After many collisions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Alberto M. Campos , Tarcísio P. R. Campos

We consider a symmetric random walk on the $\nu$-dimensional lattice, whose exit probability from the origin is modified by an antisymmetric perturbation and prove the local central limit theorem for this process. A short-range correction…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Giuseppe Genovese , Renato Lucà

In this paper we consider a stochastic process that may experience random reset events which bring suddenly the system to the starting value and analyze the relevant statistical magnitudes. We focus our attention on monotonous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Miquel Montero , Javier Villarroel

There have been extensive studies of a random walk among a field of immobile traps (or obstacles), where one is interested in the probability of survival as well as the law of the random walk conditioned on its survival up to time $t$. In…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Siva Athreya , Alexander Drewitz , Rongfeng Sun

As a model of market price, we introduce a new type of random walk in a moving potential which is approximated by a quadratic function with its center given by the moving average of its own trace. The properties of resulting random walks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Misako Takayasu , Takayuki Mizuno , Hideki Takayasu

We present simulation results for long ($N\leq 4000$) self-avoiding walks in four dimensions. We find definite indications of logarithmic corrections, but the data are poorly described by the asymptotically leading terms. Detailed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Peter Grassberger , Rainer Hegger , Lothar Schaefer

We study the biased random walk in positive random conductances on $\mathbb {Z}^d$. This walk is transient in the direction of the bias. Our main result is that the random walk is ballistic if, and only if, the conductances have finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-16 Alexander Fribergh

Consider a random walk $S_n=\sum_{i=0}^n X_i$ with negative drift. This paper deals with upper bounds for the maximum $M=\max_{n\ge 1}S_n$ of this random walk in different settings of power moment existences. As it is usual for deriving…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-07-28 Johannes Kugler , Vitali Wachtel

Exploration and trapping properties of random walkers that may evanesce at any time as they walk have seen very little treatment in the literature, and yet a finite lifetime is a frequent occurrence, and its effects on a number of random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-19 S. B. Yuste , E. Abad , Katja Lindenberg

We compute the exponential decay of the probability that a given multi-dimensional random walk stays in a convex cone up to time $n$, as $n$ goes to infinity. We show that the latter equals the minimum, on the dual cone, of the Laplace…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Rodolphe Garbit , Kilian Raschel

We investigate random walks on the general linear group constrained within a specific domain, with a focus on their asymptotic behavior. In a previous work [38], we constructed the associated harmonic measure, a key element in formulating…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Ion Grama , Jean-François Quint , Hui Xiao

We consider a random walk on integers where at the first visits to a site the walker gets a positive drift, but where after a certain number of visits the walker gets a negative drift. We prove that the walker is almost surely transient to…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Bruno Schapira

We study the asymptotic probability that a random walk with heavy-tailed increments crosses a high boundary on a random time interval. We use new techniques to extend results of Asmussen [Ann. Appl. Probab. 8 (1998) 354-374] to completely…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-29 Sergey Foss , Zbigniew Palmowski , Stan Zachary