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Random walks in cones have the double interest of being at the heart of many probabilistic problems and of being related to many mathematical fields, such as spectral theory, combinatorics, or discrete complex analysis. In this article, we…

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We show how to compute the probabilities of various connection topologies for uniformly random spanning trees on graphs embedded in surfaces. As an application, we show how to compute the "intensity" of the loop-erased random walk in…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Richard W. Kenyon , David B. Wilson

We consider the occupation area of spherical (fractional) Brownian motion, i.e. the area where the process is positive, and show that it is uniformly distributed. For the proof, we introduce a new simple combinatorial view on occupation…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Frank Aurzada , Leif Döring , Helmut H. Pitters

For a simple (unbiased) random walk on a connected graph with $n$ vertices, the cover time (the expected number of steps it takes to visit all vertices) is at most $O(n^3)$. We consider locally biased random walks, in which the probability…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Roee David , Uriel Feige

How does removal of sites by a random walk lead to blockage of percolation? To study this problem of correlated site percolation, we consider a random walk (RW) of $N=uL^d$ steps on a $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice of size $L^d$ (with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-22 Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We study a simple random walk on an n-dimensional hypercube. For any starting position we find the probability of hitting vertex a before hitting vertex b, whenever a and b share the same edge. This generalizes the model in Doyle, P., and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-19 Stanislav Volkov , Timothy Wong

Consider a random walk on a tree $G=(V,E)$. For $v,w \in V$, let the hitting time $H(v,w)$ denote the expected number of steps required for the random walk started at $v$ to reach $w$, and let $\pi_v = \mathrm{deg}(v)/2|E|$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Andrew Beveridge , Ben Bridenbaugh , Ari Holcombe Pomerance

We consider a Brownian motion with linear drift that splits at fixed time points into a fixed number of branches, which may depend on the branching point. For this process, which we shall refer to as the Brownian decision tree, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Krzysztof Dȩbicki , Pavel Ievlev , Nikolai Kriukov

For the simple random walk in Z^2 we study those points which are visited an unusually large number of times, and provide a new proof of the Erdos-Taylor conjecture describing the number of visits to the most visited point.

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jay Rosen

Accessibility percolation is a new type of percolation problem inspired by evolutionary biology. To each vertex of a graph a random number is assigned and a path through the graph is called accessible if all numbers along the path are in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-04 Stefan Nowak , Joachim Krug

Consider a family of random ordered graph trees $(T_n)_{n\geq 1}$, where $T_n$ has $n$ vertices. It has previously been established that if the associated search-depth processes converge to the normalised Brownian excursion when rescaled…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-24 David A. Croydon

The coalescing Brownian flow on $\mathbb{R}$ is a process which was introduced by Arratia [Coalescing Brownian motions on the line (1979) Univ. Wisconsin, Madison] and T\'{o}th and Werner [Probab. Theory Related Fields 111 (1998) 375-452],…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Nathanaël Berestycki , Christophe Garban , Arnab Sen

We consider the slow movement of randomly biased random walk $(X_n)$ on a supercritical Galton--Watson tree, and are interested in the sites on the tree that are most visited by the biased random walk. Our main result implies tightness of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Yueyun Hu , Zhan Shi

For the supercritical Bernoulli bond percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ ($d \geq 2$), we give a coupling between the random walk on the infinite cluster and its limit Brownian motion, such that the maximum distance between the paths during…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Chenlin Gu , Zhonggen Su , Ruizhe Xu

We consider the scaling behavior of the range and $p$-multiple range, that is the number of points visited and the number of points visited exactly $p\geq 1$ times, of simple random walk on ${\mathbb Z}^d$, for dimensions $d\geq 2$, up to…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Thomas Doehrman , Sunder Sethuraman , Shankar C. Venkataramani

We study random walks in a random environment on a regular, rooted, coloured tree. The asymptotic behaviour of the walks is classified for ergodicity/transience in terms of the geometric properties of the matrix describing the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Menshikov , Dimitri Petritis

A random walk problem with particles on discrete double infinite linear grids is discussed. The model is based on the work of Montroll and others. A probability connected with the problem is given in the form of integrals containing…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. B. Sanders , N. M. Temme

Consider the $d$ dimensional lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$ where each vertex is open or closed with probability $p$ or $1-p$ respectively. An open vertex $\mathbb{u} := (\mathbb{u}(1), \mathbb{u}(2),...,\mathbb{u}(d))$ is connected by an edge to…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-27 Rahul Roy , Kumarjit Saha , Anish Sarkar

For more than a century lattice random walks have been employed ubiquitously, both as a theoretical laboratory to develop intuition about more complex stochastic processes and as a tool to interpret a vast array of empirical observations.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-31 Luca Giuggioli , Seeralan Sarvaharman , Debraj Das , Daniel Marris , Toby Kay

We investigate the lattice walk performed by a tagged member of an infinite `sea' of particles filling a d-dimensional lattice, in the presence of a Brownian vacancy. Particle-particle exchange is forbidden; the only interaction between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Toroczkai