Topology of the support of the two-dimensional random walk

Details Topology of the support of the two-dimensional random walk Topology of the support of the two-dimensional random walk

1996-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9609018v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

34 pages, LaTeX, uses amstex and righttag, figure available upon request at fvw@stat.th.u-psud.fr

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We study the support (i.e. the set of visited sites) of a t step random walk on a two-dimensional square lattice in the large t limit. A broad class of global properties M(t) of the support is considered, including, e.g., the number S(t) of its sites; the length of its boundary; the number of islands of unvisited sites that it encloses; the number of such islands of given shape, size, and orientation; and the number of occurrences in space of specific local patterns of visited and unvisited sites. On a finite lattice we determine the scaling functions that describe the averages on appropriate lattice size dependent time scales. On an infinite lattice we first observe that the all increase with t as t/\log^k t, where k is an M dependent positive integer. We then consider the class of random processes constituted by the fluctuations around average Delta M(t). We show that to leading order as t gets large these fluctuations are all proportional to a single universal random process eta(t), normalized to =1$. For t--> infinity the probability law of eta(t) tends to that of Varadhan's renormalized local time of self-intersections. An implication is that in the long time limit all Delta M(t) are proportional to Delta S(t).

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