Superdiffusivity for Brownian motion in a Poissonian potential with long range correlation. II: Upper bound on the volume exponent (Q1930654)

Typical trajectories of the Brownian motion are those killed with a homogeneous rate and conditioned to survive till hitting a distant hyperplane. They stay in a tube centered along the direction orthogonal to this hyperplane of diameter \(\sqrt{L}\), whereby \(L\) is the distance between the source of the trajectories and the hyperplane. Adding an inhomogeneous term to the killing rate makes the transversal fluctuation of the trajectories superdiffusive, e.g., of amplitude \(L^{\xi }\) for some \(\xi \in (1/2, 1)\) (\(\xi \) is called the volume exponent). The pertinent inhomogeneity stems from a random (Poissonian) potential \(V\) representing a field of traps whose center locations are given by a Poisson point process, while their radii are distributed according to a common (heavy-tailed) distribution of an unbounded support. The presence of long-range spatial correlations is a crucial difference when compared with Poissonian models studied so far, c.f. a summary of that topic in [\textit{A. S. Sznitman}, Brownian motion, obstacles and random media. Berlin: Springer (1998; Zbl 0973.60003)]. The paper is a direct sequel to [ibid. 48, No. 4, 1010--1028 (2012; Zbl 1267.82146)], where a lower bound on the so-called volume exponent \(\xi \) for the superdiffusive case was established. The present analysis is focused on identifying an upper bound for the volume exponent \(\xi \).