Escape regimes of biased random walks on Galton-Watson trees (Q2413243)
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Escape regimes of biased random walks on Galton-Watson trees (English)
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10 April 2018
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Biased random walks are a natural setting for studying trapping phenomena as dead-ends, caused by leaves in the tree, slow the walk. In this paper, biased random walks on subcritical and supercritical Galton-Watson trees are investigated. Some known results for the walk on the supercritical tree are extended by considering offspring laws with infinite variance. Moreover, for the walk on the subcritical tree a new trapping phenomena is observed. These result in a polynomial escape of the walk, which is always sub-ballistic in the subcritical case, unlike the supercritical case which always has some ballistic phase.
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random walk in random environment
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Galton-Watson tree
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infinite variance
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infinitely divisible distributions
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sub-ballistic
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