On P\'olya's random walk constants
Probability
2024-03-07 v4 Classical Analysis and ODEs
Abstract
A celebrated result in probability theory is that a simple symmetric random walk on the -dimensional lattice is recurrent for and transient for . In this note, we derive a closed-form expression, in terms of the Lauricella function , for the return probability for all . Previously, a closed-form formula had only been available for .
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@article{arxiv.2311.11326,
title = {On P\'olya's random walk constants},
author = {Robert E. Gaunt and Saralees Nadarajah and Tibor K. Pogány},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.11326},
year = {2024}
}
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5 pages