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2000 A Large Wiener Sausage from Crumbs
Omer Angel, Itai Benjamini, Yuval Peres
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 5: 67-71 (2000). DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v5-1019

Abstract

Let $B(t)$ denote Brownian motion in $R^d$. It is a classical fact that for any Borel set $A$ in $R^d$, the volume $V_1(A)$ of the Wiener sausage $B[0,1]+A$ has nonzero expectation iff $A$ is nonpolar. We show that for any nonpolar $A$, the random variable $V_1(A)$ is unbounded.

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Omer Angel. Itai Benjamini. Yuval Peres. "A Large Wiener Sausage from Crumbs." Electron. Commun. Probab. 5 67 - 71, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v5-1019

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Accepted: 24 April 2000; Published: 2000
First available in Project Euclid: 2 March 2016

zbMATH: 0951.60077
MathSciNet: MR1781839
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ECP.v5-1019

Subjects:
Primary: 60J45
Secondary: 31C15 , 60J65

Keywords: Brownian motion , capacity , polar set , Wiener sausage

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