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Detecting the trail of a random walker in a random scenery

  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Microsoft Research

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Abstract

Suppose that the vertices of the lattice Zd are endowed with a random scenery, obtained by tossing a fair coin at each vertex. A random walker, starting from the origin, replaces the coins along its path by i.i.d. biased coins. For which walks and dimensions can the resulting scenery be distinguished from the original scenery? We find the answer for simple random walk, where it does not depend on dimension, and for walks with a nonzero mean, where a transition occurs between dimensions three and four. We also answer this question for other types of graphs and walks, and raise several new questions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number87
JournalElectronic Journal of Probability
Volume18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Branching number
  • Random scenery
  • Random walk
  • Relative entropy

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