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Full record statistics of saturating self-interacting random walks

J. Brémont, R. Voituriez, and O. Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 12 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mrkp-r8dk

Abstract

The record age τk, defined as the time between the kth and (k+1)st record-breaking events, is a central observable of extreme-value statistics. In translation-invariant Markovian processes, the absence of memory renders record ages independent and identically distributed. How memory induces aging –a dependence of τk on k– and correlations between record ages remain fundamental questions closely connected to widely observed aging phenomena in non-Markovian dynamics. In this Letter, we focus on saturating self-interacting random walks, a broad class of non-Markovian processes. We derive the exact asymptotic distribution of the record age τk, which provides a rare microscopic derivation of recent scaling predictions. We go further and determine its joint statistics with a future record age τl, l>k. We show that record ages can be strongly correlated: an earlier anomalously long record age can enhance or suppress the probability of a subsequent long record age by an order of magnitude.

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