Visible lattice points in random walks
Number Theory
2015-12-16 v1 Probability
Abstract
We consider the possible visits to visible points of a random walker moving up and right in the integer lattice (with probability and , respectively) and starting from the origin. We show that, almost surely, the asymptotic proportion of strings of consecutive visible lattice points visited by such an -random walk is a certain constant , which is actually an (explicitly calculable) polynomial in of degree . For , this gives that, almost surely, the asymptotic proportion of time the random walker is visible from the origin is , independently of .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.04722,
title = {Visible lattice points in random walks},
author = {Javier Cilleruelo and José L. Fernández and Pablo Fernández},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04722},
year = {2015}
}