Random Walk with a Boundary Line as a Free Massive Boson with a Defect Line

Angelo Valleriani

Published Jan 1, 1995• 1 citation

Abstract

We show that the problem of Random Walk with boundary attractive potential may be mapped onto the free massive bosonic Quantum Field Theory with a line of defect. This mapping permits to recover the statistical properties of the Random Walks by using boundary S--matrix and Form Factor techniques.

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