A weakness in strong localization for Sinai's walk

DOI10.1214/009117906000000863MaRDI QIDQ2370098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhan Shi, Olivier Zindy

Publication date 22 June 2007

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606376

zbMATH Keywords

favorite sitelocal timeoccupation timerandom walk in random environment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Local time and additive functionals (60J55) Processes in random environments (60K37)

Abstract: Sinai's walk is a recurrent one-dimensional nearest-neighbor random walk in random environment. It is known for a phenomenon of strong localization, namely, the walk spends almost all time at or near the bottom of deep valleys of the potential. Our main result shows a weakness of this localization phenomenon: with probability one, the zones where the walk stays for the most time can be far away from the sites where the walk spends the most time. In particular, this gives a negative answer to a problem of ErdH{o}s and R'{e}v'{e}sz [Mathematical Structures--Computational Mathematics--Mathematical Modelling 2 (1984) 152--157], originally formulated for the usual homogeneous random walk.

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