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Random walk is to diffusion as self-avoiding random walk is to ...?
One can view a random walk as a discrete process whose continuous
analog is diffusion.
For example, discretizing the heat diffusion equation
(in both time and space) leads to random walks.
Is there a ...
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Reference request- Automorphisms of point processes
A suspension of a point process on $\mathbb{R}^d$ is a measure preserving automorphism of the (distribution of the) point process which is determined by a map $T:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}^d$. The ...
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A random walk on random lines
I am wondering if this random walk remains finite with positive probability.
Start with three lines $A,B,C$ that are extensions of an equilateral triangle.
Let $p_0$ be one corner. Generate a line $...
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Iterated Circumcircle
Take three noncollinear points (a,b,c), compute the center of their circumcircle x, and replace a random one of a,b,c with x. Repeat. It seems this process may converge to a point, assuming no ...