Random Walk in Random and Non-random Environments

Random Walk in Random and Non-random Environments
Author: P l R‚v‚sz
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2013
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 981444751X

The simplest mathematical model of the Brownian motion of physics is the simple, symmetric random walk. This book collects and compares current results OCo mostly strong theorems which describe the properties of a random walk. The modern problems of the limit theorems of probability theory are treated in the simple case of coin tossing. Taking advantage of this simplicity, the reader is familiarized with limit theorems (especially strong ones) without the burden of technical tools and difficulties. An easy way of considering the Wiener process is also given, through the study of the random walk.Since the first and second editions were published in 1990 and 2005, a number of new results have appeared in the literature. The first two editions contained many unsolved problems and conjectures which have since been settled; this third, revised and enlarged edition includes those new results. In this edition, a completely new part is included concerning Simple Random Walks on Graphs. Properties of random walks on several concrete graphs have been studied in the last decade. Some of the obtained results are also presented.

Random Walk In Random And Non-random Environments (Second Edition)

Random Walk In Random And Non-random Environments (Second Edition)
Author: Pal Revesz
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2005-08-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814480223

The simplest mathematical model of the Brownian motion of physics is the simple, symmetric random walk. This book collects and compares current results — mostly strong theorems which describe the properties of a random walk. The modern problems of the limit theorems of probability theory are treated in the simple case of coin tossing. Taking advantage of this simplicity, the reader is familiarized with limit theorems (especially strong ones) without the burden of technical tools and difficulties. An easy way of considering the Wiener process is also given, through the study of the random walk.Since the first edition was published in 1990, a number of new results have appeared in the literature. The original edition contained many unsolved problems and conjectures which have since been settled; this second revised and enlarged edition includes those new results. Three new chapters have been added: frequently and rarely visited points, heavy points and long excursions. This new edition presents the most complete study of, and the most elementary way to study, the path properties of the Brownian motion.

Stopped Random Walks

Stopped Random Walks
Author: Allan Gut
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-04-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387878351

Classical probability theory provides information about random walks after a fixed number of steps. For applications, however, it is more natural to consider random walks evaluated after a random number of steps. Examples are sequential analysis, queuing theory, storage and inventory theory, insurance risk theory, reliability theory, and the theory of contours. Stopped Random Walks: Limit Theorems and Applications shows how this theory can be used to prove limit theorems for renewal counting processes, first passage time processes, and certain two-dimenstional random walks, and to how these results are useful in various applications. This second edition offers updated content and an outlook on further results, extensions and generalizations. A new chapter examines nonlinear renewal processes in order to present the analagous theory for perturbed random walks, modeled as a random walk plus "noise."

Limit Theorems for Functionals of Random Walks

Limit Theorems for Functionals of Random Walks
Author: A. N. Borodin
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1995
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821804384

This book examines traditional problems in the theory of random walks: limit theorems for additive and multiadditive functionals defined on a random walk. Although the problems are traditional, the methods presented here are new. The book is intended for experts in probability theory and its applications, as well as for undergraduate and graduate students specializing in these areas.

Principles of Random Walk

Principles of Random Walk
Author: Frank Spitzer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1976-03-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

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.