Limiting velocity of high-dimensional random walk in random environment (Q2482285)

A random walk in random environment on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) is a time-homogeneous Markov chain with transition kernel \(P_{\omega}(X_{n+1}=z+e| X_n=z)=\omega(z,e)\) with \(z\in \mathbb{Z}^d\), \(e \in \{\pm e_i\}_{i=1}^d\), \(n=0,1,2,\dots\). It is assumed that \(X_0=0\) and random environment \(\{\omega(z,e)\}\) is i.i.d. and uniformly elliptic. Based on the works \textit{A.-S. Sznitman} and \textit{M. Zerner} [Ann. Probab. 27, No. 4, 1851--1869 (1999; Zbl 0965.60100)] and \textit{M. P. W. Zerner} [Electron. Commun. Probab. 7, Paper No. 19, 181--187 (2002; Zbl 1008.60107)] it is known that the limiting velocity \(v=\lim_{n\to \infty}X_n/n\) exists almost surely and, furthermore, almost surely \(v \in A\) where \(A\) is a set of size at most 2. \noindent In the paper it is shown that random walk in uniformly elliptic i.i.d. random environment with \(d\geq 5\) has at most one non zero limiting velocity. In particular it proves a law of large numbers in the distributionally symmetric case and establishes connections between different conjectures.