We consider a random walk on the $d$-dimensional lattice and investigate the asymptotic probability of the walk avoiding a "disaster" (points put down according to a regular Poisson process on space-time). We show that, given the Poisson process points, almost…

We investigate the evolution of the random interfaces in a two dimensional Potts model at zero temperature under Glauber dynamics for some particular initial conditions. We prove that under space-time diffusive scaling the shape of the interfaces converges in probability…

Recently, Bauke and Mertens conjectured that the local statistics of energies in random spin systems with discrete spin space should, in most circumstances, be the same as in the random energy model. We show that this conjecture holds true as…

We modify the usual Erdos-Renyi random graph evolution by letting connected clusters 'burn down' (i.e. fall apart to disconnected single sites) due to a Poisson flow of lightnings. In a range of the intensity of rate of lightnings the system…

We consider the stirring process in the interval $\Lambda_N:=[-N,N]$ of $\mathbb Z$ with  births and deaths taking place in the intervals $I_+:=(N-K,N]$, and respectively $I_-:=[-N,-N+K)$, $1 \le K <N$. We prove bounds on the truncated moments uniform in $N$ which…

We derive the following property of the "true self-repelling motion", a continuous real-valued self-interacting process $(X_t, t \ge 0)$ introduced by Balint Toth and Wendelin Werner. Conditionally on its occupation time measure at time one (which is the information about…

We consider exclusion process with degenerate rates  in a finite torus with size $n$. This model is a simplified model for some peculiar phenomena of the "glassy" dynamics. We prove that the spectral gap is bounded below by $C\rho^4/n^2$, where $\rho =…

We give a counterexample to a conjecture of Hammersley and Welsh (1965) about the convexity of the time constant in first-passage percolation, as a functional on the space of distribution functions. The present counterexample only works for first-passage percolation on…

This work was motivated by the recent work by H. Dette, J. Pitman and W.J. Studden on a new duality relation for random walks. In this note we consider the diffusion process limit of their result, and use the alternative…

We sharpen a bound in a theorem of Russell Lyons for percolation on a tree and associated random walk.