scholarly journals Strong Limit Theorems for a Simple Random Walk on the 2-Dimensional Comb

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (0) ◽  
pp. 2371-2390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Endre Csáki ◽  
Miklós Csörgö ◽  
Antonia Feldes ◽  
Pál Révész
2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 851-867
Author(s):  
Xiao Fang ◽  
Han L. Gan ◽  
Susan Holmes ◽  
Haiyan Huang ◽  
Erol Peköz ◽  
...  

AbstractA classical result for the simple symmetric random walk with 2n steps is that the number of steps above the origin, the time of the last visit to the origin, and the time of the maximum height all have exactly the same distribution and converge when scaled to the arcsine law. Motivated by applications in genomics, we study the distributions of these statistics for the non-Markovian random walk generated from the ascents and descents of a uniform random permutation and a Mallows(q) permutation and show that they have the same asymptotic distributions as for the simple random walk. We also give an unexpected conjecture, along with numerical evidence and a partial proof in special cases, for the result that the number of steps above the origin by step 2n for the uniform permutation generated walk has exactly the same discrete arcsine distribution as for the simple random walk, even though the other statistics for these walks have very different laws. We also give explicit error bounds to the limit theorems using Stein’s method for the arcsine distribution, as well as functional central limit theorems and a strong embedding of the Mallows(q) permutation which is of independent interest.


1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 355-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Sudbury

Particles are situated on a rectangular lattice and proceed to invade each other's territory. When they are equally competitive this creates larger and larger blocks of one type as time goes by. It is shown that the expected size of such blocks is equal to the expected range of a simple random walk.


1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G. Pakes

This paper develops the notion of the limiting age of an absorbing Markov chain, conditional on the present state. Chains with a single absorbing state {0} are considered and with such a chain can be associated a return chain, obtained by restarting the original chain at a fixed state after each absorption. The limiting age, A(j), is the weak limit of the time given Xn = j (n → ∞).A criterion for the existence of this limit is given and this is shown to be fulfilled in the case of the return chains constructed from the Galton–Watson process and the left-continuous random walk. Limit theorems for A (J) (J → ∞) are given for these examples.


1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-126
Author(s):  
Torgny Lindvall ◽  
L. C. G. Rogers

The use of Mineka coupling is extended to a case with a continuous state space: an efficient coupling of random walks S and S' in can be made such that S' — S is virtually a one-dimensional simple random walk. This insight settles a zero-two law of ergodicity. One more proof of Blackwell's renewal theorem is also presented.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Thi Zin ◽  
Pyke Tin ◽  
Pann Thinzar Seint ◽  
Kosuke Sumi ◽  
Ikuo Kobayashi ◽  
...  

1978 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 852-866
Author(s):  
A. J. Stam

Let be a family of random walks with For ε↓0 under certain conditions the random walk U (∊) n converges to an oscillating random walk. The ladder point distributions and expectations converge correspondingly. Let M ∊ = max {U (∊) n , n ≧ 0}, v 0 = min {n : U (∊) n = M ∊}, v 1 = max {n : U (∊) n = M ∊}. The joint limiting distribution of ∊2σ∊ –2 v 0 and ∊σ∊ –2 M ∊ is determined. It is the same as for ∊2σ∊ –2 v 1 and ∊σ–2 ∊ M ∊. The marginal ∊σ–2 ∊ M ∊ gives Kingman's heavy traffic theorem. Also lim ∊–1 P(M ∊ = 0) and lim ∊–1 P(M ∊ < x) are determined. Proofs are by direct comparison of corresponding probabilities for U (∊) n and for a special family of random walks related to MI/M/1 queues, using the central limit theorem.


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