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Wiener Sausage


The Wiener sausage of radius a>0 is the random process defined by

 W^a(t)= union _(0<=s<=t)B_a(beta(s))

where here, beta(t) is the standard Brownian motion in R^d for t>=0 and B_a(x) denotes the open ball of radius a centered at x in R^d. Named after Norbert Wiener, the term is also intended to describe W^a(t) visually: Indeed, for a given Brownian motion beta(t), W^a(t) is essentially a sausage-like tube of radius a having beta(t) as its central line.


See also

Brownian Motion, Independent Statistics, Random Variable, Random Walk, Random Walk-1-Dimensional, Stochastic Process

This entry contributed by Christopher Stover

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References

Bolthausen, E. "On the Volume of the Wiener Sausage." Ann. Prob. 18, 1576-1582, 1990.van den Berg, M.; Bolthausen, E.; and den Hollander, F. "On the Volume of the Intersection of Two Wiener Sausages." Ann. Math. 159, 741-783, 2004.

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