Record statistics for random walk bridges

Abstract

We investigate the statistics of records in a random sequence $\{x_B(0)=0,x_B(1),\cdots ,x_B(n)=x_B(0)=0\}$ of $n$ time steps. The sequence $x_B(k)$'s represents the position at step $k$ of a random walk `bridge' of $n$ steps that starts and ends at the origin. At each step, the increment of the position is a random jump drawn from a specified symmetric distribution. We study the statistics of records and record ages for such a bridge sequence, for different jump distributions. In absence of the bridge condition, i.e., for a free random walk sequence, the statistics of the number and ages of records exhibits a `strong' universality for all $n$, i.e., they are completely independent of the jump distribution as long as the distribution is continuous. We show that the presence of the bridge constraint destroys this strong `all $n$' universality. Nevertheless a `weaker' universality still remains for large $n$, where we show that the record statistics depends on the jump distributions only through a single parameter $0<\mu \le 2$, known as the Lévy index of the walk, but are insensitive to the other details of the jump distribution. We derive the most general results (for arbitrary jump distributions) wherever possible and also present two exactly solvable cases. We present numerical simulations that verify our analytical results.

40 pages, 11 figures, contribution to the JSTAT Special Issue based on the Galileo Galilei Institute Workshop "Advances in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics". Published version

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