- Accepted Paper
Full record statistics of saturating self-interacting random walks
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 12 November, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mrkp-r8dk
Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 12 November, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/mrkp-r8dk
The record age , defined as the time between the th and 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 on – 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 , which provides a rare microscopic derivation of recent scaling predictions. We go further and determine its joint statistics with a future record age , . 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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