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Only even times contribute, and at time $2k$ the walk is at zero exactly when it has made $k$ steps in each direction. By linearity of expectation,The Stirling formula implies thatHence there is a constant $c_0>0$ such that this term is at least $c_0/\sqrt{k}$ for every $k\ge 1$, after decreasing $c_0$ to cover the finitely many small values. ThereforeThe final expression is $2c_0(\sqrt{n+1}-1)$, so, after another adjustment for small $n$, there is a constant $c>0$ withfor every $n$. This is the lower bound recorded by expected visits to the origin by a simple random walk.