Monotonicity for excited random walk in high dimensions (Q2380771)

The authors study \textit{excited random walk}, where the random walker has a drift in the direction of the first component each time the walker visits a new site. It was shown that this process has ballistic behaviour when \(d\geq 2\). They prove that the drift \(\theta \left( d,\beta \right) \) for excited random walk in dimension \(d\) is monotone in the excitement parameter \(\beta \left[ 0,1\right] \), when \(d\) is sufficiently large. The authors give an explicit criterion for monotonicity involving random walk Green's functions, and use rigorous numerical upper bounds provided by T. Hara to verify the criterion for \(d\geq 9.\)