Seminars: D. N. Zaporozhets, On Convex Hull of Multidimensional Random Walk

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Principle Seminar of the Department of Probability Theory, Moscow State University March 25, 2015, Moscow, MSU, auditorium 12-24

On Convex Hull of Multidimensional Random Walk D. N. Zaporozhets St. Petersburg Department of V. A. Steklov Institute of Mathematics, USSR Academy of Sciences
Abstract: It is well known that the probability that a random walk stays positive by the time $n$ does not depend on the distribution of the random walk if it is continuous and symmetric. We generalize this result to dimension two and suggest a conjecture for arbitrary dimension. We also derive a formula for the expected perimeter and number of faces of the convex hull of a multidimensional random walk with arbitrary continuous distribution. It turned out that the expected number of faces does not depend on the distribution, too. Based on the joint work with V. Vysotsky.