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Relating microscopic and macroscopic parameters for a 3-dimensional random walk

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We consider a particle undergoing a discrete random walk with killing. We relate the microscopic transition and killing probabilities to these same parameters at a macroscopic level. We find the appropriate scaling laws.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    F. Alberto Grünbaum

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Research partially supported by NSF under Grant DMS 87-20007 and AFOSR under contract AFOSR-88-0250

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Grünbaum, F.A. Relating microscopic and macroscopic parameters for a 3-dimensional random walk. Commun.Math. Phys. 129, 95–102 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096780

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