The Intersection Exponent for Simple Random Walk

The intersection exponent ξ for simple random walk in two and three dimensions gives a measure of the rate of decay of the probability that paths do not intersect. In this paper we show that the intersection exponent for random walks is the same as that for Brownian motion and show in fact that the probability of nonintersection up to distance n is comparable (equal up to multiplicative constants) to n−ξ.

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