A new family of solvable Pearson-Dirichlet random walks

DOI10.1007/S10955-011-0245-4zbMATH Open1226.82025arXiv1106.5070OpenAlexW3101330002WikidataQ60692003 ScholiaQ60692003MaRDI QIDQ637522FDOQ637522

Authors: Gérard Le Caër 

Publication date: 6 September 2011

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A n-step Pearson-Gamma random walk in Rd starts at the origin and consists of n independent steps with gamma distributed lengths and uniform orientations. The gamma distribution of each step length has a shape parameter q>0. Constrained random walks of n steps in Rd are obtained from the latter walks by imposing that the sum of the step lengths is equal to a fixed value. When the latter is chosen, without loss of generality, to be equal to 1, then the constrained step lengths have a Dirichlet distribution whose parameters are all equal to q. The density of the endpoint position of a n- step planar walk of this type (ngeq2), with q=d=2, was shown recently to be a weighted mixture of 1+floor(n/2) endpoint densities of planar Pearson-Dirichlet walks with q=1 (Stochastics, 82: 201, 2010). The previous result is generalized to any walk space dimension and any number of steps ngeq2 when the parameter of the Pearson-Dirichlet random walk is q=d>1. The endpoint density is a weighted mixture of 1+floor(n/2) densities with simple forms, equivalently expressed as a product of a power and a Gauss hypergeometric function. The weights are products of factors which depend both on d and n and Bessel numbers independent of d.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5070

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet distributiongamma distributionGauss hypergeometric functionrandom flightsinverse Laplace transformBessel numbersPearson-Rayleigh random walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Laplace transform (44A10)

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