Random walks on hyperspheres of arbitrary dimensions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/9/001MaRDI QIDQ4465244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Michel Caillol

Publication date 27 May 2004

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/0401209

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: We consider random walks on the surface of the sphere $S_{n-1}$ ($ngeq2$) of the $n$-dimensional Euclidean space $E_n$, in short a hypersphere. By solving the diffusion equation in $S_{n-1}$ we show that the usual law $<r^2>varproptot$ valid in $E_{n-1}$ should be replaced in $S_{n-1}$ by the generic law $<cosheta>varproptoexp(-t/au)$, where $heta$ denotes the angular displacement of the walker. More generally one has $<C_L^{n/2-1}cos(heta)>varproptoexp(-t/au(L,n))$ where $C_L^{n/2-1}$ a Gegenbauer polynomial. Conjectures concerning random walks on a fractal inscribed in $S_{n-1}$ are given tentatively.

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