Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/ib/paper-1/19h/c/solution

Let
for the walk on . Decompose into its three outer copies of and trace the walk only when it passes between distinct corner vertices of these copies. The self-similarity and reflection symmetry of the Sierpinski graph make this trace the simple random walk on . It requires an expected five transitions to hit the two target outer corners.
Each coarse transition is an excursion across a copy of and has mean duration . Applying the strong Markov property at the coarse stopping times gives
Since , induction yields

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