Confinement of Brownian motion among Poissonian obstacles in \(\mathbb{R}^d, d\geq 3\) (Q1299976)

The author considers the Brownian motion process among random obstacles obtained by translating a fixed compact nonpolar subset of \(\mathbb{R}^d\), \(d\geq 1\), at the points of a Poisson cloud of constant intensity \(\nu> 0\). It is assumed that the process is absorbed instantaneously upon entering the obstacle set. \textit{A.-S. Sznitman} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 44, No. 8/9, 1137-1170 (1991; Zbl 0753.60075)] proved that for \(d=2\), conditionally on the event that the process does not enter the obstacle set up to time \(t\), the probability that it remains within distance \(\sim t^{1/4}\) from its starting point converges to 1 as \(t\to \infty\). The present author shows that the same result holds true for \(d\geq 3\) with \(t^{1/4}\) replaced by \(t^{1/(d+2)}\). The proof is based on works by \textit{A.-S. Sznitman} [Ann. Probab. 25, No. 3, 1180-1209 (1997; Zbl 0885.60063)] and \textit{R. R. Hall} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 428, 161-175 (1992; Zbl 0746.52012)].