 Simultaneous returns of independent simple random walks (source code)

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= Simultaneous returns of independent simple random walks

For $d$ <independent random variables>[independent] symmetric walks on $\mathbb Z$, the probability that all are at the origin at time $2n$ is
$$
\left(\frac{\binom{2n}{n}}{4^n}\right)^d\asymp n^{-d/2}.
$$
The <Borel-Cantelli lemmas> therefore show that simultaneous returns occur only finitely often almost surely when $d\geq3$.

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