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November 2010 Entropy of random walk range
Itai Benjamini, Gady Kozma, Ariel Yadin, Amir Yehudayoff
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 46(4): 1080-1092 (November 2010). DOI: 10.1214/09-AIHP345

Abstract

We study the entropy of the set traced by an n-step simple symmetric random walk on ℤd. We show that for d≥3, the entropy is of order n. For d=2, the entropy is of order n/log2n. These values are essentially governed by the size of the boundary of the trace.

Nous étudions l’entropie de la trace d’une marche aléatoire simple et symétrique de longueur n sur ℤd. Nous montrons que si d≥3, cette entropie est d’ordre n, tandis que pour d=2 elle est d’ordre n/log2n. Ces valeurs proviennent essentiellement de la taille de la frontière de la trace.

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Itai Benjamini. Gady Kozma. Ariel Yadin. Amir Yehudayoff. "Entropy of random walk range." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 46 (4) 1080 - 1092, November 2010. https://doi.org/10.1214/09-AIHP345

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Published: November 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 4 November 2010

zbMATH: 1208.82046
MathSciNet: MR2744887
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/09-AIHP345

Subjects:
Primary: 82C41 , 94A17

Keywords: Entropy , Random walk

Rights: Copyright © 2010 Institut Henri Poincaré

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