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Random walks (RWs) are fundamental stochastic processes with applications across physics, computer science, and information processing. A recent extension, the laser chaos decision-maker, employs chaotic time series from semiconductor…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Akihiro Narimatsu , Tomoki Yamagami

Random walks in random environments (RWRE) model transport in quenched disorder, incorporating spatial heterogeneity, trapping, random drift, and random geometry. This paper summarizes discrete and continuous time formulations, identifies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-14 Hazel Brookfield , Wei Zhou , Ian Weatherby

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

We study the distribution of the number of (non-backtracking) periodic walks on large regular graphs. We propose a formula for the ratio between the variance of the number of $t$-periodic walks and its mean, when the cardinality of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Idan Oren , Uzy Smilansky

Random walks constitute a fundamental mechanism for a large set of dynamics taking place on networks. In this article, we study random walks on weighted networks with an arbitrary degree distribution, where the weight of an edge between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-17 Zhongzhi Zhang , Tong Shan , Guanrong Chen

Random walks in random scenery are processes defined by $Z_n:=\sum_{k=1}^n\xi_{X_1+...+X_k}$, where $(X_k,k\ge 1)$ and $(\xi_y,y\in\mathbb Z)$ are two independent sequences of i.i.d. random variables. We suppose that the distributions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Françoise Pène

This is a report of a scientific project carried out at Ecole Centrale Casablanca in 2019. This work is an entry into the world of Random Walk in a Random Environment (RWRE). We will discuss some intuitive concepts such as recurrence,…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Mouad El Bouchattaoui

We consider one-dimensional activated random walk (ARW) on $\mathbb{Z}$ started from a `point source' initial condition, with many particles at the origin and no other particles. We prove that, uniformly throughout a macroscopic window…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Christopher Hoffman , Jacob Richey , Hyojeong Son

This paper concerns the Vertex Reinforced Jump Process (VRJP) and its representations as a Markov process in random environment. We show that all possible representations of the VRJP as a mixture of Markov processes can be expressed in a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Thomas Gerard

In this paper we study the behavior of a continuous time random walk (CTRW) on a stationary and ergodic time varying dynamic graph. We establish conditions under which the CTRW is a stationary and ergodic process. In general, the stationary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Daniel Figueiredo , Philippe Nain , Bruno Ribeiro , Edmundo de Souza e Silva , Don Towsley

Random walks in random sceneries (RWRS) are simple examples of stochastic processes in disordered media. They were introduced at the end of the 70's by Kesten-Spitzer and Borodin, motivated by the construction of new self-similar processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-29 Nadine Guillotin-Plantard , Julien Poisat , Renato Soares Dos Santos

The co-evolution between network structure and functional performance is a fundamental and challenging problem whose complexity emerges from the intrinsic interdependent nature of structure and function. Within this context, we investigate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Daniel R. Figueiredo , Michele Garetto

We study the once-reinforced random walk on $\mathbb Z^d$, which is a self-interacting walk that has a higher probability to cross edges that were already visited. We prove that the walk is transient when $d\ge 6$ and when the reinforcement…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Dor Elboim , Gady Kozma

We propose a model of random walks on weighted graphs where the weights are interval valued, and connect it to reversible imprecise Markov chains. While the theory of imprecise Markov chains is now well established, this is a first attempt…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Damjan Škulj

We give a simple proof for recurrence of vertex reinforced jump process on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\), under strong reinforcement. Moreover, we show how the previous result implies that linearly edge-reinforced random walk on \ \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) is…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Andrea Collevecchio , Xiaolin Zeng

A survey of reinforced random walk, with emphasis on the linear case.

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-03 Gady Kozma

Consider a nearest neighbor random walk on the two-dimensional integer lattice, where each vertex is initially labeled either `H' or `V', uniformly and independently. At each discrete time step, the walker resamples the label at its current…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-11 Swee Hong Chan

Consider a walker performing a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment, and assume that the walker tells us at each time the environment it sees at its present location. Given this history of the transition probabilities seen from the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-13 Nina Gantert , Jan Nagel

Multifractal properties of the distribution of topological invariants for a model of trajectories randomly entangled with a nonsymmetric lattice of obstacles are investigated. Using the equivalence of the model to random walks on a locally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Voituriez , S. Nechaev

We introduce weighted Markovian graphs, a random walk model that decouples the transition dynamics of a Markov chain from (random) edge weights representing the cost of traversing each edge. This decoupling allows us to study the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Thao Le , Robbert van der Burg , Bernd Heidergott , Ines Lindner , Alessandro Zocca