scholarly journals Lengths and heights of random walk excursions

2003 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endre Csáki ◽  
Yueyun Hu

International audience Consider a simple symmetric random walk on the line. The parts of the random walk between consecutive returns to the origin are called excursions. The heights and lengths of these excursions can be arranged in decreasing order. In this paper we give the exact and limiting distributions of these ranked quantities. These results are analogues of the corresponding results of Pitman and Yor [1997, 1998, 2001] for Brownian motion.

2003 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alois Panholzer

International audience Here we consider two parameters for random non-crossing trees: $\textit{(i)}$ the number of random cuts to destroy a size-$n$ non-crossing tree and $\textit{(ii)}$ the spanning subtree-size of $p$ randomly chosen nodes in a size-$n$ non-crossing tree. For both quantities, we are able to characterise for $n → ∞$ the limiting distributions. Non-crossing trees are almost conditioned Galton-Watson trees, and it has been already shown, that the contour and other usually associated discrete excursions converge, suitable normalised, to the Brownian excursion. We can interpret parameter $\textit{(ii)}$ as a functional of a conditioned random walk, and although we do not have such an interpretation for parameter $\textit{(i)}$, we obtain here limiting distributions, that are also arising as limits of some functionals of conditioned random walks.


2003 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Drmota

International audience In this paper we consider discrete random walks on infinite graphs that are generated by copying and shifting one finite (strongly connected) graph into one direction and connecting successive copies always in the same way. With help of generating functions it is shown that there are only three types for the asymptotic behaviour of the random walk. It either converges to the stationary distribution or it can be approximated in terms of a reflected Brownian motion or by a Brownian motion. In terms of Markov chains these cases correspond to positive recurrence, to null recurrence, and to non recurrence.


2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 379-385
Author(s):  
N. ISHIMURA ◽  
N. YOSHIDA

We discuss discrete stochastic processes with two independent variables: one is the standard symmetric random walk, and the other is the Poisson process. Convergence of discrete stochastic processes is analysed, such that the symmetric random walk tends to the standard Brownian motion. We show that a discrete analogue of Ito’s formula converges to the corresponding continuous formula.


2003 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Marchal

International audience We give an algorithm which constructs recursively a sequence of simple random walks on $\mathbb{Z}$ converging almost surely to a Brownian motion. One obtains by the same method conditional versions of the simple random walk converging to the excursion, the bridge, the meander or the normalized pseudobridge.


1987 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Norris ◽  
L. C. G. Rogers ◽  
David Williams

2001 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Dembo ◽  
Yuval Peres ◽  
Jay Rosen ◽  
Ofer Zeitouni

2003 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Nguyên Thê

International audience This paper gives a survey of the limit distributions of the areas of different types of random walks, namely Dyck paths, bilateral Dyck paths, meanders, and Bernoulli random walks, using the technology of generating functions only.


2003 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AC,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid Tolmatz

International audience The distribution function of the integral of the absolute value of the Brownian motion was expressed by L.Takács in the form of various series. In the present paper we determine the exact tail asymptotics of this distribution function. The proposed method is applicable to a variety of other Wiener functionals as well.


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