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Random Walks

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Extremal Combinatorics

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There are n rocks forming a circle in a river, and there is a frog on one of these rocks. The frog remains stationary with probability 1/3, jumps to the right rock with probability 1/3 and jumps to the left one with probability 1/3. The frog problem is: where will the frog be after time t?

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Jukna, S. (2011). Random Walks. In: Extremal Combinatorics. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17364-6_23

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