Deterministic Random Walks on the Integers
Joshua Cooper, Benjamin Doerr, Joel Spencer, Gábor Tardos
Abstract
We analyze the one-dimensional version of Jim Propp's P-machine, a simple deterministic process that simulates a random walk on ℤ. The ``output'' of the machine is astonishingly close to the expected behavior of a random walk, even on long intervals of space and time.
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