Some recent variations on the expected number of distinct sites visited by an n-step random walk

George H. Weiss, Ido Dayan, Shlomo Havlin, James E. Kiefer, Hernan Larralde, H. Eugene Stanley, Paul Trunfio

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Abstract

Asymptotic forms for the expected number of distinct sites visited by an n-step random walk, being calculable for many random walks, have been used in a number of analyses of physical models. We describe three recent extensions of the problem, the first replacing the single random walker by N→∞ random walkers, the second to the study of a random walk in the presence of a trapping site, and the third to a random walk in the presence of a trapping hyperplane.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)479-490
Number of pages12
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume191
Issue number1-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 1992

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