The drift of a one-dimensional self-avoiding random walk (Q1326256): Difference between revisions

We prove that a self-avoiding random walk on the integers with bounded increments grows linearly. We characterize its drift in terms of the Frobenius eigenvalue of a certain one-parameter family of primitive matrices. As an important tool, we express the local times as a two-block functional of a certain Markov chain, which is of independent interest.