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self-avoidance time of random walk

How many steps on average does a simple random walk in the plane take before it visits a vertex it's visited before? If an exact formula does not exist (as seems likely), then I'm interested in good …
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Counting returns in null-recurrent random walk

Consider two independent copies of IID random walk on ${\bf Z}$ starting from $0$, and let $N_1(t)$ (resp. $N_2(t)$) denote the number of times, up to time $t$, that the first (resp. second) walker ha …
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exactly simulating a random walk from infinity

In diffusion-limited aggregation on the square lattice, one lets a particle do "random walk from infinity" until it hits the current aggregate, at which point the site occupied by the particle is adde …
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