Principles of Random Walk

Principles of Random Walk

Author: Frank Spitzer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1475742290

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This book is devoted exclusively to a very special class of random processes, namely, to random walk on the lattice points of ordinary Euclidian space. The author considers this high degree of specialization worthwhile because the theory of such random walks is far more complete than that of any larger class of Markov chains. Almost 100 pages of examples and problems are included.


Principles of Random Walk

Principles of Random Walk

Author: Frank Spitzer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780387951546

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More than 100 pages of examples and problems illustrate and clarify the presentation."--BOOK JACKET.


Asymptotic Analysis of Random Walks

Asymptotic Analysis of Random Walks

Author: A. A. Borovkov

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1108901204

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This is a companion book to Asymptotic Analysis of Random Walks: Heavy-Tailed Distributions by A.A. Borovkov and K.A. Borovkov. Its self-contained systematic exposition provides a highly useful resource for academic researchers and professionals interested in applications of probability in statistics, ruin theory, and queuing theory. The large deviation principle for random walks was first established by the author in 1967, under the restrictive condition that the distribution tails decay faster than exponentially. (A close assertion was proved by S.R.S. Varadhan in 1966, but only in a rather special case.) Since then, the principle has always been treated in the literature only under this condition. Recently, the author jointly with A.A. Mogul'skii removed this restriction, finding a natural metric for which the large deviation principle for random walks holds without any conditions. This new version is presented in the book, as well as a new approach to studying large deviations in boundary crossing problems. Many results presented in the book, obtained by the author himself or jointly with co-authors, are appearing in a monograph for the first time.


Random Walk and the Heat Equation

Random Walk and the Heat Equation

Author: Gregory F. Lawler

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0821848291

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The heat equation can be derived by averaging over a very large number of particles. Traditionally, the resulting PDE is studied as a deterministic equation, an approach that has brought many significant results and a deep understanding of the equation and its solutions. By studying the heat equation and considering the individual random particles, however, one gains further intuition into the problem. While this is now standard for many researchers, this approach is generally not presented at the undergraduate level. In this book, Lawler introduces the heat equations and the closely related notion of harmonic functions from a probabilistic perspective. The theme of the first two chapters of the book is the relationship between random walks and the heat equation. This first chapter discusses the discrete case, random walk and the heat equation on the integer lattice; and the second chapter discusses the continuous case, Brownian motion and the usual heat equation. Relationships are shown between the two. For example, solving the heat equation in the discrete setting becomes a problem of diagonalization of symmetric matrices, which becomes a problem in Fourier series in the continuous case. Random walk and Brownian motion are introduced and developed from first principles. The latter two chapters discuss different topics: martingales and fractal dimension, with the chapters tied together by one example, a random Cantor set. The idea of this book is to merge probabilistic and deterministic approaches to heat flow. It is also intended as a bridge from undergraduate analysis to graduate and research perspectives. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduates, particularly those considering graduate work in mathematics or related areas.


Statistical Mechanics and Random Walks

Statistical Mechanics and Random Walks

Author: Abram Skogseid

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781614709664

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In this book, the authors gather and present topical research in the study of statistical mechanics and random walk principles and applications. Topics discussed in this compilation include the application of stochastic approaches to modelling suspension flow in porous media; subordinated Gaussian processes; random walk models in biophysical science; non-equilibrium dynamics and diffusion processes; global random walk algorithm for diffusion processes and application of random walks for the analysis of graphs, musical composition and language phylogeny.


A Random Walk Down Wall Street

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Author: Burton Gordon Malkiel

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780393057829

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An informative guide to successful investing, offering a vast array of advice on how investors can tilt the odds in their favour.


Random Walks in Biology

Random Walks in Biology

Author: Howard C. Berg

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1400820022

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This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography, and cell motility--subjects that become lively and immediate when the author discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles.


Random Walks and Heat Kernels on Graphs

Random Walks and Heat Kernels on Graphs

Author: M. T. Barlow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1107674425

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Useful but hard-to-find results enrich this introduction to the analytic study of random walks on infinite graphs.


Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory

Random Walks, Critical Phenomena, and Triviality in Quantum Field Theory

Author: Roberto Fernandez

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 3662028662

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Simple random walks - or equivalently, sums of independent random vari ables - have long been a standard topic of probability theory and mathemat ical physics. In the 1950s, non-Markovian random-walk models, such as the self-avoiding walk,were introduced into theoretical polymer physics, and gradu ally came to serve as a paradigm for the general theory of critical phenomena. In the past decade, random-walk expansions have evolved into an important tool for the rigorous analysis of critical phenomena in classical spin systems and of the continuum limit in quantum field theory. Among the results obtained by random-walk methods are the proof of triviality of the cp4 quantum field theo ryin space-time dimension d (::::) 4, and the proof of mean-field critical behavior for cp4 and Ising models in space dimension d (::::) 4. The principal goal of the present monograph is to present a detailed review of these developments. It is supplemented by a brief excursion to the theory of random surfaces and various applications thereof. This book has grown out of research carried out by the authors mainly from 1982 until the middle of 1985. Our original intention was to write a research paper. However, the writing of such a paper turned out to be a very slow process, partly because of our geographical separation, partly because each of us was involved in other projects that may have appeared more urgent.