
Random Walk in Random and Non-Random Environments.
Title:
Random Walk in Random and Non-Random Environments.
Author:
Revesz, Pal.
ISBN:
9789814447515
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Edition:
3rd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (421 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- I. SIMPLE SYMMETRIC RANDOM WALK IN Z1 -- Notations and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction of Part I -- 1.1 Random walk -- 1.2 Dyadic expansion -- 1.3 Rademacher functions -- 1.4 Coin tossing -- 1.5 The language of the probabilist -- 2 Distributions -- 2.1 Exact distributions -- 2.2 Limit distributions -- 3 Recurrence and the Zero-One Law -- 3.1 Recurrence -- 3.2 The zero-one law -- 4 From the Strong Law of Large Numbers to the Law of Iterated Logarithm -- 4.1 Borel Cantelli lemma and Markov inequality -- 4.2 The strong law of large numbers -- 4.3 Between the strong law of large numbers and the law of iterated logarithm -- 4.4 The LIL of Khinchine -- 5 Lévy Classes -- 5.1 Definitions -- 5.2 EFKP LIL -- 5.3 The laws of Chung and Hirsch -- 5.4 When will Sn be very large? -- 5.5 A theorem of Csáki -- 6 Wiener Process and Invariance Principle -- 6.1 Four lemmas -- 6.2 Joining of independent random walks -- 6.3 Definition of the Wiener process -- 6.4 Invariance Principle -- 7 Increments -- 7.1 Long head-runs -- 7.2 The increments of a Wiener process -- 7.3 The increments of SN -- 8 Strassen Type Theorems -- 8.1 The theorem of Strassen -- 8.2 Strassen theorems for increments -- 8.3 The rate of convergence in Strassen's theorems -- 8.4 A theorem of Wichura -- 9 Distribution of the Local Time -- 9.1 Exact distributions -- 9.2 Limit distributions -- 9.3 Definition and distribution of the local time of a Wiener process -- 10 Local Time and Invariance Principle -- 10.1 An invariance principle -- 10.2 A theorem of Lévy -- 11 Strong Theorems of the Local Time -- 11.1 Strong theorems for (x, n) and (n) -- 11.2 Increments of (x, t) -- 11.3 Increments of (x, n) -- 11.4 Strassen type theorems -- 11.5 Stability -- 12 Excursions.
12.1 On the distribution of the zeros of a random walk -- 12.2 Local time and the number of long excursions (Mesure du voisinage) -- 12.3 Local time and the number of high excursions -- 12.4 The local time of high excursions -- 12.5 How many times can a random walk reach its maximum? -- 13 Frequently and Rarely Visited Sites -- 13.1 Favourite sites -- 13.2 Rarely visited sites -- 14 An Embedding Theorem -- 14.1 On the Wiener sheet -- 14.2 The theorem -- 14.3 Applications -- 15 A Few Further Results -- 15.1 On the location of the maximum of a random walk -- 15.2 On the location of the last zero -- 15.3 The Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and a Darling-Erdos theorem -- 15.4 A discrete version of the Itô formula -- 16 Summary of Part I -- II. SIMPLE SYMMETRIC RANDOM WALK IN Zd -- Notations -- 17 The Recurrence Theorem -- 18 Wiener Process and Invariance Principle -- 19 The Law of Iterated Logarithm -- 20 Local Time -- 20.1 (0, n) in Z2 -- 20.2 (n) in Zd -- 20.3 A few further results -- 21 The Range -- 21.1 The strong law of large numbers -- 21.2 CLT, LIL and Invariance Principle -- 21.3 Wiener sausage -- 22 Heavy Points and Heavy Balls -- 22.1 The number of heavy points -- 22.2 Heavy balls -- 22.3 Heavy balls around heavy points -- 22.4 Wiener process -- 23 Crossing and Self-crossing -- 24 Large Covered Balls -- 24.1 Completely covered discs centered in the origin of Z2 -- 24.2 Completely covered disc in Z2 with arbitrary centre -- 24.3 Almost covered disc centred in the origin of Z2 -- 24.4 Discs covered with positive density in Z2 -- 24.5 Completely covered balls in Zd -- 24.6 Large empty balls -- 24.7 Summary of Chapter 24 -- 25 Long Excursions -- 25.1 Long excursions in Z2 -- 25.2 Long excursions in high dimension -- 26 Speed of Escape -- 27 A Few Further Problems -- 27.1 On the Dirichlet problem -- 27.2 DLA model -- 27.3 Percolation.
III. RANDOM WALK IN RANDOM ENVIRONMENT -- Notations -- 28 Introduction of Part III -- 29 In the First Six Days -- 30 After the Sixth Day -- 30.1 The recurrence theorem of Solomon -- 30.2 Guess how far the particle is going away in an RE -- 30.3 A prediction of the Lord -- 30.4 A prediction of the physicist -- 31 What Can a Physicist Say About the Local Time (0, n)? -- 31.1 Two further lemmas on the environment -- 31.2 On the local time (0, n) -- 32 On the Favourite Value of the RWIRE -- 33 A Few Further Problems -- 33.1 Two theorems of Golosov -- 33.2 Non-nearest-neighbour random walk -- 33.3 RWIRE in Zd -- 33.4 Non-independent environments -- 33.5 Random walk in random scenery -- 33.6 Random environment and random scenery -- 33.7 Reinforced random walk -- IV. RANDOM WALKS IN GRAPHS -- 34 Introduction of Part IV -- 35 Random Walk in Comb -- 35.1 Definitions and legend -- 35.2 Approximation -- 35.3 Extremes of a comb-walk -- 35.4 Local time of a comb-walk -- 35.5 Large square covered by a comb-random-walk -- 36 Random Walk in a Comb and in a Brush with Crossings -- 36.1 Comb with crosslines -- 36.2 A question on a brush with crossings -- 37 Random Walk on a Spider -- 38 Random Walk in Half-Plane-Half-Comb -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
The simplest mathematical model of the Brownian motion of physics is the simple, symmetric random walk. This book collects and compares current results - mostly strong theorems which describe the properties of a random walk. The modern problems of the limit theorems of probability theory are treated in the simple case of coin tossing. Taking advantage of this simplicity, the reader is familiarized with limit theorems (especially strong ones) without the burden of technical tools and difficulties. An easy way of considering the Wiener process is also given, through the study of the random walk.Since the first and second editions were published in 1990 and 2005, a number of new results have appeared in the literature. The first two editions contained many unsolved problems and conjectures which have since been settled; this third, revised and enlarged edition includes those new results. In this edition, a completely new part is included concerning Simple Random Walks on Graphs. Properties of random walks on several concrete graphs have been studied in the last decade. Some of the obtained results are also presented.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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