# Multidimensional random walk with reflections

**Authors:** Judith Kloas, Wolfgang Woess

arXiv: 1704.06055 · 2017-04-21

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the recurrence properties of multidimensional reflected random walks, a complex extension of the well-understood one-dimensional case, highlighting new challenges and insights in higher dimensions.

## Contribution

It provides new analysis and results on the recurrence behavior of multidimensional reflected random walks, addressing challenges not present in the one-dimensional case.

## Key findings

- Recurrence criteria for multidimensional reflected random walks
- Identification of new difficulties in higher-dimensional models
- Extension of classical results to multidimensional settings

## Abstract

Reflected random walk in higher dimension arises from an ordinary random walk (sum of i.i.d. random variables): whenever one of the reflecting coordinates becomes negative, its sign is changed, and the process continues from that modified position. One-dimensional reflected random walk is quite well understood from work in 7 decades, but the multidimensional model presents several new difficulties. Here we investigate recurrence questions.

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