Three-Step and Four-Step Random Walk Integrals

نویسندگان

  • Jonathan M. Borwein
  • Armin Straub
  • James Wan
چکیده

We investigate the moments of 3-step and 4-step uniform random walk in the plane. In particular, we further analyse a formula conjectured in [BNSW09] expressing 4-step moments in terms of 3-step moments. Diverse related results including hypergeometric and elliptic closed forms for W4(±1) are given and two new conjectures are recorded.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Experimental Mathematics

دوره 22  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013