The Pearson walk with shrinking steps in two dimensions

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2010/01/P01006zbMATH Open1456.82449arXiv0910.0852OpenAlexW3105489078MaRDI QIDQ3301117FDOQ3301117

Authors: C. A. Serino, S. Redner 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the shrinking Pearson random walk in two dimensions and greater, in which the direction of the Nth is random and its length equals lambda^{N-1}, with lambda<1. As lambda increases past a critical value lambda_c, the endpoint distribution in two dimensions, P(r), changes from having a global maximum away from the origin to being peaked at the origin. The probability distribution for a single coordinate, P(x), undergoes a similar transition, but exhibits multiple maxima on a fine length scale for lambda close to lambda_c. We numerically determine P(r) and P(x) by applying a known algorithm that accurately inverts the exact Bessel function product form of the Fourier transform for the probability distributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0852

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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