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February 2014 Extremal points of high-dimensional random walks and mixing times of a Brownian motion on the sphere
Ronen Eldan
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 50(1): 95-110 (February 2014). DOI: 10.1214/12-AIHP515

Abstract

We derive asymptotics for the probability that the origin is an extremal point of a random walk in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We show that in order for the probability to be roughly $1/2$, the number of steps of the random walk should be between $\mathrm{e}^{n/(C\log n)}$ and $\mathrm{e}^{Cn\log n}$ for some constant $C>0$. As a result, we attain a bound for the $\frac{\pi}{2}$-covering time of a spherical Brownian motion.

Nous étudions le comportement asymptotique de la probabilité que l’origine soit un point extrémal d’une marche aléatoire dans $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Nous montrons que cette probabilité est proche de $1/2$ si le nombre de pas de la marche aléatoire est entre $\mathrm{e}^{n/(C\log n)}$ et $\mathrm{e}^{Cn\log n}$ pour une certaine constante $C>0$. Comme corollaire, nous obtenons une borne pour le temps de $\frac{\pi}{2}$-recouvrement d’un mouvement brownien sphérique.

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Ronen Eldan. "Extremal points of high-dimensional random walks and mixing times of a Brownian motion on the sphere." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 50 (1) 95 - 110, February 2014. https://doi.org/10.1214/12-AIHP515

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Published: February 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 1 January 2014

zbMATH: 1290.60079
MathSciNet: MR3161524
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/12-AIHP515

Subjects:
Primary: 52A22 , 52A38 , 60J65

Keywords: Convex hull , mixing time , Random walk , Spherical coverings

Rights: Copyright © 2014 Institut Henri Poincaré

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