Finite time and asymptotic behaviour of the maximal excursion of a random walk

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/27/302MaRDI QIDQ4947666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roger Bidaux, Jérôme Chave, Radim Vočka

Publication date 25 April 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905300

zbMATH Keywords

limit distributionmaximal excursionrandom walk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: We evaluate the limit distribution of the maximal excursion of a random walk in any dimension for homogeneous environments and for self-similar supports under the assumption of spherical symmetry. This distribution is obtained in closed form and is an approximation of the exact distribution comparable to that obtained by real space renormalization methods. Then we focus on the early time behaviour of this quantity. The instantaneous diffusion exponent $u_n$ exhibits a systematic overshooting of the long time exponent. Exact results are obtained in one dimension up to third order in $n^{-1/2}$. In two dimensions, on a regular lattice and on the Sierpi'nski gasket we find numerically that the analytic scaling $u_{n}simequ+A{n}^{-u}$ holds.

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