An effective criterion and a new example for ballistic diffusions in random environment (Q2427059)

Random walks in a random environment are studied in multidimensional setting with the purpose of establishing local characterizations for an emergence of ballistic diffusions. A complete characterization of a ballistic behavior in the one-dimesional case is available due to \textit{F. Solomon} [Ann. Probab. 3, 1--31, (1975; Zbl 0305.60029)]. In higher dimensions such a characterization is as yet incomplete and, for transient random walks in a random environment, an effective criterion (in fact two of them) for an asymptotically ballistic behavior was formulated by A.-S. Sznitman (2003), implying a ballistic law of large numbers and a central limit theorem. In the present paper an effective local criterion is proposed and suitable perturbed Brownian motions are introduced to provide new examples of diffusions with a ballistic behavior, beyond prior knowledge.