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Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Russell Lyons

In this paper, we are interested in the asymptotic behaviour of the sequence of processes $(W_n(s,t))_{s,t\in[0,1]}$ with \begin{equation*} W_n(s,t):=\sum_{k=1}^{\lfloor nt\rfloor}\big(1_{\{\xi_{S_k}\leq s\}}-s\big) \end{equation*} where…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Francoise Pene , Martin Wendler

P\'olya's random walk theorem states that a random walk on a $d$-dimensional grid is recurrent for $d=1,2$ and transient for $d\ge3$. We prove a version of P\'olya's random walk theorem for non-backtracking random walks. Namely, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Mark Kempton

We construct a renewal structure for random walks on surface groups. The renewal times are defined as times when the random walks enters a particular type of a cone and never leaves it again. As a consequence, the trajectory of the random…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Peter Haissinsky , Pierre Mathieu , Sebastian Mueller

For a symmetric random walk in $Z^2$ which does not necessarily have bounded jumps we study those points which are visited an unusually large number of times. We prove the analogue of the Erd\H{o}s-Taylor conjecture and obtain the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard F. Bass , Jay Rosen

We show that the edges crossed by a random walk in a network form a recurrent graph a.s. In fact, the same is true when those edges are weighted by the number of crossings.

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Itai Benjamini , Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Russell Lyons

This note presents a proof of P\'olya's random walk theorem using classical methods from special function theory and asymptotic analysis.

Probability · Mathematics 2013-04-19 Jonathan Novak

In [3] the radius of convergence of the generating function of the collision local time of two independent copies of an irreducible, symmetric and transient random walk on Zd, d \geq 1, was studied. Two versions were considered: z1, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Frank den Hollander , Alex A. Opoku

In the present paper we find necessary and sufficient conditions for recurrence of random walks on arbitrary subgroups of the group of rational numbers $\mathbb{Q}$.

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Margaryta Myronyuk

We consider a transient random walk on $Z^d$ which is asymptotically stable, without centering, in a sense which allows different norming for each component. The paper is devoted to the asymptotics of the probability of the first return to…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Ron Doney , Dmitry Korshunov

We prove that Vertex Reinforced Random Walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ with weight of order $k^\alpha$, with $\alpha\in [0,1/2)$, is either almost surely recurrent or almost surely transient. This improves a previous result of Volkov who showed that…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Bruno Schapira

We consider random walk on a finite group $G$ as follows. We can consider $G$ as a group of substitutions. Randomly (i.e. with probability $U(g)=|G|^{-1}$ ) we choose a substitution $g \in G$ and execute it twice in a row, i.e. execute a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Olexandr Vyshnevetskiy , Alexander Bendikov

A parametric family of two-dimensional random walks $\mathbf{S}_t(a)$ $=\big(S_t^{(1)}(a),$ $S_t^{(2)}(a)\big)$ in the main quarter plane is studied. The components $S_t^{(1)}(a)$ and $S_t^{(2)}(a)$ are assumed to be correlated in the way…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Vyacheslav M. Abramov

We consider random walks in a random environment that is given by i.i.d. Dirichlet distributions at each vertex of Z^d or, equivalently, oriented edge reinforced random walks on Z^d. The parameters of the distribution are a 2d-uplet of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Christophe Sabot , Laurent Tournier

Famously, a $d$-dimensional, spatially homogeneous random walk whose increments are non-degenerate, have finite second moments, and have zero mean is recurrent if $d \in \{1,2\}$ but transient if $d \geq 3$. Once spatial homogeneity is…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicholas Georgiou , Mikhail V. Menshikov , Aleksandar Mijatović , Andrew R. Wade

We study the asymptotic behavior of the simple random walk on oriented version of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. The considered latticesare not directed on the vertical axis but unidirectional on the horizontal one, with symmetric random orientations…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Arnaud Le Ny

We introduce random walks in a sparse random environment on $\mathbb Z$ and investigate basic asymptotic properties of this model, such as recurrence-transience, asymptotic speed, and limit theorems in both the transient and recurrent…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Anastasios Matzavinos , Alexander Roitershtein , Youngsoo Seol

We consider random walks perturbed at zero which behave like (possibly different) random walks with i.i.d. increments on each half lines and restarts at $0$ whenever they cross that point. We show that the perturbed random walk, after being…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hoang-Long Ngo , Marc Peigne

We investigate excited random walks on $\Z^d, d\ge 1,$ and on planar strips $\Z\times\{0,1,...,L-1\}$ which have a drift in a given direction. The strength of the drift may depend on a random i.i.d. environment and on the local time of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin P. W. Zerner

We consider recurrence versus transience for models of random walks on domains of $\mathbb{Z}^d$, in which monotone interaction enforces domain growth as a result of visits by the walk (or probes it sent), to the neighborhood of domain…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Amir Dembo , Ruojun Huang , Vladas Sidoravicius