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Random walk in mixed random environment without uniform ellipticity

Hryniv, Ostap; Menshikov, Mikhail V.; Wade, Andrew R.

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We study a random walk in random environment on ℤ+. The random environment is not homogeneous in law, but is a mixture of two kinds of site, one in asymptotically vanishing proportion. The two kinds of site are (i) points endowed with probabilities drawn from a symmetric distribution with heavy tails at 0 and 1, and (ii) “fast points” with a fixed systematic drift. Without these fast points, the model is related to the diffusion in heavy-tailed (“stable”) random potential studied by Schumacher and Singh; the fast points perturb that model. The two components compete to determine the behaviour of the random walk; we identify phase transitions in terms of the model parameters. We give conditions for recurrence and transience and prove almost sure bounds for the trajectories of the walk.

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Hryniv, O., Menshikov, M. V., & Wade, A. R. (2013). Random walk in mixed random environment without uniform ellipticity. Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 282(1), 106-123. https://doi.org/10.1134/s0081543813060102

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2013
Deposit Date Oct 22, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics
Print ISSN 0081-5438
Electronic ISSN 1531-8605
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 282
Issue 1
Pages 106-123
DOI https://doi.org/10.1134/s0081543813060102

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