Non-invariance of circular turning-angle distributions under sub-sampling
Let be a circular distribution, let denote the turning-angle distribution obtained after sub-sampling every steps, and let be the step-length distribution. Non-invariance conjecture. There is no circular distribution , other than the circular uniform distribution, such that
where is an integer, regardless of the step-length distribution . This conjecture seeks a precise characterization of how sub-sampling changes turning-angle distributions in correlated random walks; the preceding results establish related effects for specific cases, while the general claim remains unresolved.
References
Primary source
Joseph D. Bailey and Jessica Claridge, “Effect of sampling on the descriptive distributions of correlated random walks”, arXiv:2607.03186 (2026).
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