A random walk proof of the Erdős-Taylor conjecture

DOI10.1007/S10998-005-0014-8MaRDI QIDQ2568554zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jay Rosen

Publication date 5 October 2006

Published in Periodica Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503108

zbMATH Keywords

frequent points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Abstract: For the simple random walk in Z^2 we study those points which are visited an unusually large number of times, and provide a new proof of the Erdos-Taylor conjecture describing the number of visits to the most visited point.

Review text

In \textit{A. Dembo, Y. Peres, J. Rosen} and \textit{O. Zeitouni} [Acta. Math. 186, No.~2, 239--270 (2001; Zbl 1008.60063)], the Erdős-Taylor conjecture, concerning the asymptotics of the number of visits to the most frequently visited point in the first \(n\) steps of the simple planar random walk. Their proof was by deduction from a related result for planar Brownian motion. In this paper, the conjecture, together with some refinements, is proved by purely random walk arguments.

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