Capacity of the range in dimension 5 (Q2212615)

For a random walk defined by a sequence of independent random variables with values on the \(d\)-dimensional integer grid and a common distribution which is symmetric and irreducible and has a finite \(d\)-th moment, this paper first obtains a precise asymptotic estimate for the probability that the ranges of two independent walks starting from far away intersect when \(d\le 5\). Based on this result, a central limit theorem for the capacity of the range of a random walk is proved when \(d=5\). This paper fills a gap in the previous research which established the central limit theorem for the simple random walk in any dimension \(d\le 3\), except for the case of dimension 5.