Elephant random walk with polynomially decaying steps

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nakano, Yuzaburo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915268267081728
author Nakano, Yuzaburo
author_facet Nakano, Yuzaburo
contents In this paper, we introduce a variation of the elephant random walk whose steps are polynomially decaying. At each time $k$, the walker's step size is $k^{-γ}$ with $γ>0$. We investigate effects of the step size exponent $γ$ and the memory parameter $α\in [-1,1]$ on the long-time behavior of the walker. For fixed $α$, it admits phase transition from divergence to convergence (localization) at $γ_{c}(α)=\max \{α,1/2\}$. This means that large enough memory effect can shift the critical point for localization. Moreover, we obtain quantitative limit theorems which provide a detailed picture of the long-time behavior of the walker.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2505_00277
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Elephant random walk with polynomially decaying steps
Nakano, Yuzaburo
Probability
In this paper, we introduce a variation of the elephant random walk whose steps are polynomially decaying. At each time $k$, the walker's step size is $k^{-γ}$ with $γ>0$. We investigate effects of the step size exponent $γ$ and the memory parameter $α\in [-1,1]$ on the long-time behavior of the walker. For fixed $α$, it admits phase transition from divergence to convergence (localization) at $γ_{c}(α)=\max \{α,1/2\}$. This means that large enough memory effect can shift the critical point for localization. Moreover, we obtain quantitative limit theorems which provide a detailed picture of the long-time behavior of the walker.
title Elephant random walk with polynomially decaying steps
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00277