When does a discrete-time random walk in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) absorb the origin into its convex hull?

DOI10.1214/15-AOP1079zbMath1377.52008arXiv1410.0458OpenAlexW2963194287MaRDI QIDQ2412664

Pierre Youssef, Konstantin Tikhomirov

Publication date: 24 October 2017

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0458

zbMATH Keywords

convex hullrandom walkcovering time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Brownian motion (60J65) Random convex sets and integral geometry (aspects of convex geometry) (52A22)

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