Random Walk in an Alcove of an Affine Weyl Group, and Non-colliding Random Walks on an Interval

Abstract. We use a reflection argument, introduced by Gessel and Zeilberger, to count the number of k-step walks between two points which stay within a chamber of a Weyl group. We apply this technique to walks in the alcoves of the classical affine Weyl groups. In all cases, we get determinant formulas for the number of k-step walks. One important example is the region m > x1 > x2 > · · · > xn > 0, which is a rescaled alcove of the affine Weyl group C̃n. If each coordinate is considered to be an independent particle, this models n non-colliding random walks on the interval (0, m). Another case models n noncolliding random walks on a circle.