scholarly journals Random walk hitting times and effective resistance in sparsely connected Erdős‐Rényi random graphs

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-84
Author(s):  
John Sylvester
2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (03) ◽  
pp. 824-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. M. Hambly ◽  
Jonathan Jordan

We consider a sequence of random graphs constructed by a hierarchical procedure. The construction replaces existing edges by pairs of edges in series or parallel with probability p. We investigate the effective resistance across the graphs, first-passage percolation on the graphs and the Cheeger constants of the graphs as the number of edges tends to infinity. In each case we find a phase transition at


Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1431
Author(s):  
Gaia Pozzoli ◽  
Mattia Radice ◽  
Manuele Onofri ◽  
Roberto Artuso

We consider a continuous-time random walk which is the generalization, by means of the introduction of waiting periods on sites, of the one-dimensional non-homogeneous random walk with a position-dependent drift known in the mathematical literature as Gillis random walk. This modified stochastic process allows to significantly change local, non-local and transport properties in the presence of heavy-tailed waiting-time distributions lacking the first moment: we provide here exact results concerning hitting times, first-time events, survival probabilities, occupation times, the moments spectrum and the statistics of records. Specifically, normal diffusion gives way to subdiffusion and we are witnessing the breaking of ergodicity. Furthermore we also test our theoretical predictions with numerical simulations.


1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Palacios

Aleliunas et al. [3] proved that for a random walk on a connected raph G = (V, E) on N vertices, the expected minimum number of steps to visit all vertices is bounded by 2|E|(N - 1), regardless of the initial state. We give here a simple proof of that result through an equality involving hitting times of vertices that can be extended to an inequality for hitting times of edges, thus obtaining a bound for the expected minimum number of steps to visit all edges exactly once in each direction.


1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Emery

It is shown that, under certain conditions, satisfied by stable distributions, symmetric distributions, distributions with zero mean and finite second moment and other distributions, the distribution function of the maxima of successive partial sums of identically distributed random variables has an asymptotic property. This property implies the regular variation of the tail of the distribution of the hitting times of the associated random walk, and hence that these hitting times belong to the domain of attraction of a stable law.


1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-600
Author(s):  
Jean Bertoin

Consider an oscillating integer valued random walk up to the first hitting time of some fixed integer x > 0. Suppose there is a fee to be paid each time the random walk crosses the level x, and that the amount corresponds to the overshoot. We determine the distribution of the sum of these fees in terms of the renewal functions of the ascending and descending ladder heights. The proof is based on the observation that some path transformation of the random walk enables us to translate the problem in terms of the intersection of certain regenerative sets.


2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Palacios

Using classical arguments we derive a formula for the moments of hitting times for an ergodic Markov chain. We apply this formula to the case of simple random walk on trees and show, with an elementary electric argument, that all the moments are natural numbers.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mokhtar Konsowa ◽  
Fahimah Al-Awadhi

The speed of the random walk on a tree is the rate of escaping its starting point. It depends on the way that the branching occurs in the sense that if the average number of branching is large, the speed is more likely to be positive. The speed on some models of random trees is calculated via calculating the hitting times of the consecutive levels of the tree.


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