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Conference Papers Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Year : 2007

On the Exit Time of a Random Walk with Positive Drift

Abstract

We study a random walk with positive drift in the first quadrant of the plane. For a given connected region $\mathcal{C}$ of the first quadrant, we analyze the number of paths contained in $\mathcal{C}$ and the first exit time from $\mathcal{C}$. In our case, region $\mathcal{C}$ is bounded by two crossing lines. It is noted that such a walk is equivalent to a path in a tree from the root to a leaf not exceeding a given height. If this tree is the parsing tree of the Tunstall or Khodak variable-to-fixed code, then the exit time of the underlying random walk corresponds to the phrase length not exceeding a given length. We derive precise asymptotics of the number of paths and the asymptotic distribution of the exit time. Even for such a simple walk, the analysis turns out to be quite sophisticated and it involves Mellin transforms, Tauberian theorems, and infinite number of saddle points.
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hal-01184773 , version 1 (17-08-2015)

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Michael Drmota, Wojciech Szpankowski. On the Exit Time of a Random Walk with Positive Drift. 2007 Conference on Analysis of Algorithms, AofA 07, 2007, Juan les Pins, France. pp.319-332, ⟨10.46298/dmtcs.3525⟩. ⟨hal-01184773⟩

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