Convex hulls of random walks, hyperplane arrangements, and Weyl chambers
Convex hulls of random walks, hyperplane arrangements, and Weyl chambers
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随机游走的凸包、超平面排列和 Weyl 室
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10.1007/s00039-017-0415-x
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
Dmitry Zaporozhets
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作者:
Zakhar Kabluchko;Vladislav Vysotsky;Dmitry Zaporozhets
We give an explicit formula for the probability that the convex hull of ann-step random walk indoes not contain the origin, under the assumption that the distribution of increments of the walk is centrally symmetric and puts no mass on affine hyperplanes. This extends the formula by Sparre Andersen (Skand Aktuarietidskr 32:27–36, 1949) for the probability that such random walk in dimension one stays positive. Our result is distribution-free, that is, the probability does not depend on the distribution of increments.This probabilistic problem is shown to be equivalent to either of the two geometric ones: (1) Find the number of Weyl chambers of typeBnintersected by a generic linear subspace ofof codimensiond; (2) Find the conic intrinsic volumes of a Weyl chamber of typeBn. We solve the first geometric problem using the theory of hyperplane arrangements. A by-product of our method is a new simple proof of the general formula by Klivans and Swartz (Discrete Comput Geom 46(3):417–426, 2011) relating the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of a linear hyperplane arrangement to the conic intrinsic volumes of the chambers constituting its complement.We obtain analogous distribution-free results for Weyl chambers of type(yielding the probability of absorption of the origin by the convex hull of a generic random walk bridge), typeDn, and direct products of Weyl chambers (yielding the absorption probability for the joint convex hull of several random walks or bridges). The simplest case of products of the formrecovers the Wendel formula (Math Scand 11:109–111, 1962) for the probability that the convex hull of an i.i.d. multidimensional sample chosen from a centrally symmetric distribution does not contain the origin.We also give an asymptotic analysis of the obtained absorption probabilities as, in both cases of fixed and increasing dimensiond.
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发表时间:
1955
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作者:
L. J. Cote
通讯作者:
L. J. Cote
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发表时间:
1950
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作者:
Ludwig Schl fli
通讯作者:
Ludwig Schl fli
影响因子:
0.8
作者:
D. Hug;R. Schneider
通讯作者:
R. Schneider
影响因子:
1.6
作者:
Amelunxen, Dennis;Lotz, Martin;Tropp, Joel A.
通讯作者:
Tropp, Joel A.
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发表时间:
1993
期刊:
Journal of Combinatorial Theory
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作者:
H. Wilf
通讯作者:
H. Wilf