Published June 30, 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

On the Multi-dimensional Elephant Random Walk

  • 1. Université de Bordeaux, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, UMR 5251 (France)
  • 2. Ecole normale supérieure de Rennes, Département de Mathématiques, Campus de Ker lann (France)

Description

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the asymptotic behavior of the multi-dimensional elephant random walk (MERW). It is a non-Markovian random walk which has a complete memory of its entire history. A wide range of literature is available on the one-dimensional ERW. Surprisingly, no references are available on the MERW. The goal of this paper is to fill the gap by extending the results on the one-dimensional ERW to the MERW. In the diffusive and critical regimes, we establish the almost sure convergence, the law of iterated logarithm and the quadratic strong law for the MERW. The asymptotic normality of the MERW, properly normalized, is also provided. In the superdiffusive regime, we prove the almost sure convergence as well as the mean square convergence of the MERW. All our analysis relies on asymptotic results for multi-dimensional martingales.

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Journal Title
Journal of Statistical Physics
Journal Volume
175
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 1146-1163
ISSN
0022-4715
CODEN
JSTPBS

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54086664
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; CONVERGENCE; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; RANDOMNESS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATHEMATICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES

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