(51) Holmes, M. and Salisbury, T. Percolation of terraces,
and enhancements for the orthant model. Transactions of the AMS (to appear)(pdf)
(50) Holmes, M., Holroyd, A., and Ramírez, A. Cyclic products and optimal traps in cyclic birth and death chains. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 30(2), (2023) (pdf)
(49) Fralix, B., Holmes, M., and Löpker, A. A Markovian Arrival Stream Approach to Stochastic Gene Expression in Cells. Journal of Mathematical Biology 86, Article number: 79 (2023) (pdf)
(48) Hirsch, C., Holmes, M., and Kleptsyn, V. Infinite WARM graphs III: strong reinforcement regime. Nonlinearity 36: 3013-3042, (2023) (pdf)
(47) Holmes, M., Kojadinovic, I., and Verhoijsen, A. Multi-purpose open-end monitoring
procedures for multivariate observations based on the empirical distribution function. Journal of Time Series Analysis 45(1):27-56, (2024).
(pdf)
(46) Angel, O., Holmes, M., and Ramírez, A. Balanced excited random walk in 2 dimensions. Annals of Probability 51(4): 1421-1448, (2023) (pdf)
(45) Cabezas, M., Fribergh, A., Holmes, M., and Perkins, E. Historical lattice trees. Comm. Math. Phys. 401, pages 435-496 (2023). (pdf)
(44) Beaton, N. and Holmes, M. The mean square displacement of random walk
on the Manhattan lattice. Statistics and Probability Letters, Volume 193,
(2023),
109706 (pdf)
(43) Holmes, M., and Kious, D. Coexistence of lazy frogs on Z. J. Applied Probability, 59(3): 702-713, (2022). (pdf)
(42) Holmes, M., and Kojadinovic, I. Open-end nonparametric sequential change-point detection based on the retrospective CUSUM statistic. Elect. J. Stat. Vol. 15, No. 1, 2288-2335, (2021). (pdf)
(41) Holmes, M. and Salisbury, T. Phase transitions for degenerate random environments. ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 18, 707-725 (2021). (pdf)
(40) Beaton, N., Grimmett, G. and Holmes, M. Alignment Percolation. Mathematical Physics, Analysis, and Geometry 24:3 (2021). (pdf)
(39) Brydges, D., Helmuth, T, and Holmes, M. The continuous-time lace expansion. Communications on Pure and Applied Math. 74(11) pages 2251-2309 (2021).
(pdf)
(38) Holmes, M. and Salisbury, T. A shape theorem for the orthant model. Annals of Probability 49:3, 1237-1256, (2021). (pdf)
(37) Henze, N, and Holmes, M. Curiosities regarding waiting times in Polya's urn model. Transactions of A. Razmadze Math. Inst. (special issue in honour of E. Khmaladze) 174, 2:149-154, (2020).(pdf)
(36) Hirsch, C., Holmes, M., and Kleptsyn, V. Absence of WARM percolation in the very strong reinforcement regime. Ann. Appl. Probab. 31 (1), 199-217, (2021). (pdf)
(35) Grimmett, G. and Holmes, M. Non-coupling from the past. In Progress in Probability: In and out of Equilibrium 3 - Celebrating Vladas Sidoravicius (2021). (pdf)
(34) Holmes, M. and Taylor, P. A paradox for expected hitting times. Stochastic Models 36:365-377, (2020) (pdf)
(33) Croydon, D. and Holmes, M. Biased random walk on the trace of biased random walk on the trace of... Comm. Math. Phys. , 375(2):1341-1372, (2020)(pdf)
(32) Holmes, M. and Perkins, E. On the range of lattice models
in high dimensions. Prob. Th. Rel. Fields 176:941-1009, (2020). (pdf)
(31) Angel, O. and Holmes, M. Kemeny's constant for infinite DTMCs is infinite. J. Applied Probability 56:1269-1270, (2019)(pdf)
(30) Holmes, M. and Kious, D. A monotonicity property for once reinforced biased random walk on Zd. In Sojourns in Probability and Statistical Physics III, A Festschrift for Charles M. Newman. Pages 255-273, (2019). (pdf)
(29) Collevecchio, A., Holmes, M., and Kious, D. On the speed of once reinforced
biased random walk on trees. Electronic J.~Prob. 23:1-32,(2018). (pdf)
(28) Holmes, M., and Salisbury, T.S. Ballisticity and invariance principle for random walk in non-elliptic random environment. Electron. J. Probab.
Volume 22, paper no. 81 (2017) (pdf)
(27) Holmes, M., and Kleptsyn, V. Proof of the WARM whisker conjecture for neuronal connections. Chaos. Apr;27(4):043104 (2017).
(pdf)
(26) Holmes, M., and Salisbury, T.S. Forward clusters for degenerate random environments. Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing 25(5):744-765 (2016).
(pdf)
(25) Holmes, M. Backbone scaling for critical lattice trees in high dimensions. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49 (2016) 314001 (26pp) (Special issue in honour of Tony Guttmann)(pdf)
(24) Hofstad, R.v.d., Holmes, M., Kuznetsov, A., and Ruszel, W. Strongly reinforced Polya urns with graph-based competition. Annals of Applied Probability 26(4):2494-2539 (2016). (pdf)
(23) Holmes, M. On strict monotonicity of the speed for
excited random walks in one dimension. Electron. Commun. Probab. 20:1-7 (2015) (pdf)
(22) Holmes, M., Mohylevskyy, Y., and Newman, C. The voter model chordal interface in two dimensions. Journal of Statistical Physics 159:937-957, (2015) (pdf)
(21) Hofstad, R.v.d., Holmes, M., and Perkins, E. A criterion for convergence to super-Brownian motion on path space.
The Annals of Probability 45:278-376, (2017).(pdf)
(20) Holmes, M., and Salisbury, T.S. Random walks in degenerate random environments. Canad. J. Math. 66:1050-1077, (2014)(pdf)
(19) v.d. Hofstad, R. and Holmes, M., The survival probability and r-point functions in high dimensions. Annals of Mathematics 178(2): 665-685, (2013). (pdf)
(18) Holmes, M., Kojadinovic, I., Quessy, J.-F. Nonparametric tests for change-point detection a la
Gombay and Horvath. (pdf) J. of Multivariate Analysis 115, pages 16-32, 2013
(17) Holmes, M., and Salisbury, T.S. Degenerate random environments. Random Structures and Algorithms 45:111-137, (2014) (pdf)
(16) Holmes, M., Sun, R. A monotonicity property for random walk in a partially random environment. Stochastic Processes and their Applications 122: 1369-1396, 2012. (pdf)
(15) Galbraith, S., and Holmes, M., A non-uniform birthday problem with applications to discrete logarithms. Discrete Applied Mathematics 160:1547-1560, 2012. (pdf)
(14) Holmes, M., and Salisbury, T.S. A combinatorial result with applications
to self-interacting random walks. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 119:460-475, 2012(pdf)
(13) Holmes, M., Excited against the tide: A random walk with competing drifts. Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare Probab. Statist. 48: 745-773, 2012. (pdf)
(12) Wang, Y., Ziedins, I., Holmes, M. and Challands, N. Tree-structured Models for Difference and Change Detection in a Complex Environment.
Annals of Applied Statistics, 6, 1162-1184. 2012.(pdf)
(11) Chen, Y., Holmes, M., and Ziedins, I. Monotonicity properties of user equilibrium policies for parallel batch systems. Queueing Systems 70: 81-103, 2012.(pdf)
(10) van der Hofstad, R., and Holmes, M.P., An expansion for self-interacting random walks. Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 26:1-55, 2012(pdf)
(9) Kojadinovic, I., Yan, J. and Holmes, M. Fast large-sample goodness-of-fit tests for copulas. Statistica Sinica 21:841-871, 2011. (pdf)
(8) van der Hofstad, R., and Holmes, M.P., Monotonicity for excited random walk in high dimensions. Probability Theory and Related Fields 147:333-348, 2010(pdf)
(7) Holmes, M.P. The scaling limit of senile reinforced random walk. Electronic Communications in Probability 14:104-115 (2009).(pdf)
(6) Kojadinovic, I. and Holmes, M. Tests of independence among continuous
random vectors based on Cramer-von Mises
functionals of the empirical copula process.. J. of Multivariate Analysis 100:1137-1154 (2009)(pdf)
(5) van der Hofstad, R. Holmes, M.P. and Slade, G. An extension of the inductive approach to the lace expansion. Electronic Communications in Probability 13:291--301, (2008).(pdf)
(4) Holmes, M.P., Convergence of lattice trees to super-Brownian motion above the critical dimension. Electronic J. of Probability 13 (2008) pp671-755(pdf)
(3) Holmes, M.P., Sakai, A., Senile reinforced random
walks. Stochastic Processes and their Applications 117 (2007) pp1519-1539 (pdf)
(2) Holmes, M.P., Perkins, E., Weak convergence of measure-valued processes and r-point functions.
Annals of Probability 35 (2007) pp1769--1782 (pdf)
(1) Holmes, M.P., Jarai, A.A.,
Sakai, A., and Slade, G. High dimensional graphical networks of self-avoiding
walks. Canad. J. Math. 56:77--114, (2004).(pdf)
Other
van der Hofstad, R., Holmes, M., and Slade, G., Extension of the generalized inductive approach to the lace expansion
(full
version in pdf)
Holmes, M., and Salisbury, T.S., Speed calculations for random walks in degenerate random environments
(pdf)
A discussion document about the "Sleeping Beauty Problem" pdf
Webpages of some Coauthors/collaborators
Links
Probvic website
Probability and its Applications Research Cluster
Google scholar profile
Math genealogy page
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