Random reflections in a high-dimensional tube

DOI10.1007/S10959-016-0703-7zbMATH Open1391.60098arXiv1601.07973OpenAlexW2964312287MaRDI QIDQ1745274FDOQ1745274

Authors: K. Burdzy, Tvrtko Tadić 

Publication date: 20 April 2018

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider light ray reflections in $n$-dimensional semi-infinite tube, for $ngeq3$, made of Lambertian material. The source of light is placed far away from the exit, and the light ray is assumed to reflect so that the distribution of the direction of the reflected light ray has the density proportional to the cosine of the angle with the normal vector. We present new results on the exit distribution from the tube, and generalizations of some theorems from an earlier article, where the dimension was limited to $n=2$ and $3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07973

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zbMATH Keywords

overshootstopped random walksrandom reflectionstail of the arccosine distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Renewal theory (60K05) Random dynamical systems (37H99)

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