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How a random walk covers a finite lattice

, and . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 185 (1-4): 35--44 (Jun 15, 1992)
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90435-s

Abstract

A random walker is confined to a finite periodic d -dimensional lattice of N initially white sites. When visited by the walk a site is colored black. After t steps of the walk, for t scaled appropriately with N , we determined the structure of the set of white sites. The variance of their number has a line of critical points in the td plane, which separates a mean-field region from a region with enhanced fluctuations. At d = 2 the critical point becomes a critical interval. Moreover, for d = 2 the set of white sites is fractal with a fractal dimensionality whose t -dependence we determine.

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