Wiener sausage

Short description: Mathematical concept

For the food item, see Vienna sausage.

A long, thin Wiener sausage in 3 dimensions A short, fat Wiener sausage in 2 dimensions

In the mathematical field of probability, the Wiener sausage is a neighborhood of the trace of a Brownian motion up to a time t, given by taking all points within a fixed distance of Brownian motion. It can be visualized as a sausage of fixed radius whose centerline is Brownian motion. The Wiener sausage was named after Norbert Wiener by M. D. Donsker and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1975) because of its relation to the Wiener process; the name is also a pun on Vienna sausage, as "Wiener" is German for "Viennese".

The Wiener sausage is one of the simplest non-Markovian functionals of Brownian motion. Its applications include stochastic phenomena including heat conduction. It was first described by Frank Spitzer (1964), and it was used by Mark Kac and Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger (1973, 1974) to explain results of a Bose–Einstein condensate, with proofs published by M. D. Donsker and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1975).

## Definitions

The Wiener sausage Wδ(t) of radius δ and length t is the set-valued random variable on Brownian paths b (in some Euclidean space) defined by

Wδ(t)(b) is the set of points within a distance δ of some point b(x) of the path b with 0≤x≤t.

## Volume

There has been a lot of work on the behavior of the volume (Lebesgue measure) |Wδ(t)| of the Wiener sausage as it becomes thin (δ→0); by rescaling, this is essentially equivalent to studying the volume as the sausage becomes long (t→∞).

(Spitzer 1964) showed that in 3 dimensions the expected value of the volume of the sausage is

E(|Wδ(t)|)=2πδt+4δ22πt+4πδ3/3.

In dimension d at least 3 the volume of the Wiener sausage is asymptotic to

δd−2πd/22t/Γ((d−2)/2)

as t tends to infinity. In dimensions 1 and 2 this formula gets replaced by 8t/π and 2πt/log⁡(t) respectively. (Whitman 1964), a student of Spitzer, proved similar results for generalizations of Wiener sausages with cross sections given by more general compact sets than balls.

## References

* Donsker, M. D.; Varadhan, S. R. S. (1975), "Asymptotics for the Wiener sausage", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 28 (4): 525–565, doi:10.1002/cpa.3160280406
* Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Wiener sausage", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. / Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4, https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=W/w130100
* Kac, M.; Luttinger, J. M. (1973), "Bose-Einstein condensation in the presence of impurities", J. Math. Phys. 14 (11): 1626–1628, doi:10.1063/1.1666234, Bibcode: 1973JMP....14.1626K
* Kac, M.; Luttinger, J. M. (1974), "Bose-Einstein condensation in the presence of impurities. II", J. Math. Phys. 15 (2): 183–186, doi:10.1063/1.1666617, Bibcode: 1974JMP....15..183K
* Simon, Barry (2005), Functional integration and quantum physics, Providence, RI: AMS Chelsea Publishing, ISBN 0-8218-3582-3 Especially chapter 22.
* Spitzer, F. (1964), "Electrostatic capacity, heat flow and Brownian motion", Probability Theory and Related Fields 3 (2): 110–121, doi:10.1007/BF00535970
* Spitzer (1976), Principles of random walks, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 34, New York-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, p. 40 (Reprint of 1964 edition)
* Brownian motion, obstacles and random media, Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1998, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-11281-6, ISBN 3-540-64554-3 An advanced monograph covering the Wiener sausage.
* Whitman, Walter William (1964), Some Strong Laws for Random Walks and Brownian Motion, PhD Thesis, Cornell University

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