Estimates of random walk exit probabilities and application to loop-erased random walk

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 10, Issue , 2005, Pages 1442-1467

  Kozdron, Michael J ^a   Lawler, Gregory F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Excursion Poisson kernel; Fomin s identity; Green s function estimates; Loop erased random walk; Strong approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144535393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v10-294     Document Type: Article

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