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by apetersson 868 days ago
Doesn't that only happen in certain dimensionality < 3 ? See also random walks in higher dimensions
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You may be thinking of Polya's result, which lets the walker go anywhere on the grid, so there are more possible states than Poincaré allows. For a discrete system, Poincaré assumes (roughly) that the space of possibilities is finite.
Poincaré recurrence is not about random walks though.