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Current fluctuations for independent random walks in multiple dimensions

Probability 2010-09-15 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Consider a system of particles evolving as independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random walks. Initial fluctuations in the particle density get translated over time with velocity v\vec{v}, the common mean velocity of the random walks. Consider a box centered around an observer who starts at the origin and moves with constant velocity v\vec{v}. To observe interesting fluctuations beyond the translation of initial density fluctuations, we measure the net flux of particles over time into this moving box. We call this the ``box-current" process. We generalize this current process to a distribution valued process. Scaling time by nn and space by n\sqrt{n} gives current fluctuations of order nd/4n^{d/4} where dd is the space dimension. The scaling limit of the normalized current process is a distribution valued Gaussian process with given covariance. The limiting current process is equal in distribution to the solution of a given stochastic partial differential equation which is related to the generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.2732,
  title  = {Current fluctuations for independent random walks in multiple dimensions},
  author = {Rohini Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2732},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

31 pages; accepted for publication in Journal of Theoretical Probability

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