Module 6:Random walks and related areas
  Lecture 28:Random Walks in more than one dimension
 

 

Higher dimension random walks

Let us now consider a random walk with identically distrubuted, independent steps on a periodic lattice of dimension . It must be noted that our aim is to analyze the random time it takes the particle to return to its starting point.

Figure 6.9: Three dimension random walk (an example of higher dimension random walk) with the example where a gas particle is moving inside an enclosed cube