Three friendly walkers

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/50/2/024003MaRDI QIDQ2958581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. Jensen

Publication date 3 February 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01438

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{D}\)-finite and \(\mathrm{D}\)-algebraic functionsasymptotic series analysisdirected walk modelsexactly solvable modelspower-series expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Exactly solvable dynamic models in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C23) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

Abstract: More than 15 years ago Guttmann and V"oge [J. Statist. Plann. Inference, {�f 101}, 107 (2002)], introduced a model of friendly walkers. Since then it has remained unsolved. In this paper we provide the exact solution to a closely allied model, originally introduced by Tsuchiya and Katori [J. Phys. Soc. Japan {�f 67}, 1655 (1988)], which essentially only differs in the boundary conditions. The exact solution is expressed in terms of the reciprocal of the generating function for vicious walkers which is a D-finite function. However, ratios of D-finite functions are inherently not D-finite and in this case we prove that the friendly walkers generating function is the solution to a non-linear differential equation with polynomial coefficients, it is in other words D-algebraic. We then show via numerically exact calculations that the generating function of the original model can also be expressed as a D-finite function times the reciprocal of the generating function for vicious walkers. We obtain an expression for this D-finite function in terms of a ${}_2{F}_1$ hypergeometric function with a rational pullback and its first and second derivatives.

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