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Eulerian walkers on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ have range exponent $2/3$

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 49 references
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Abstract

In the Eulerian walker model (also known as rotor walk), each site of the square lattice begins with an arrow pointing to one of its four neighbors. A walker that starts at the origin repeatedly turns the arrow at its current site clockwise by $90^\circ$ and steps in the new direction. Priezzhev, Dhar, Dhar, and Krishnamurthy (1996) introduced this as a model of self-organized criticality and conjectured that, for independent uniform initial directions, the region explored in the first $t$ steps has radius of order $t^{1/3}$. We establish this conjecture and further show that the walker visits every lattice site infinitely often, and that the region it has visited by time $t$, rescaled by $t^{1/3}$, converges to a convex body.

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