Ballistic regime for random walks in random environment with unbounded jumps and Knudsen billiards

DOI10.1214/11-AIHP439zbMATH Open1247.60139arXiv1009.0048MaRDI QIDQ441244FDOQ441244

Authors: Francis Comets, S. Popov 

Publication date: 20 August 2012

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a random walk in a stationary ergodic environment in $mathbbZ$, with unbounded jumps. In addition to uniform ellipticity and a bound on the tails of the possible jumps, we assume a condition of strong transience to the right which implies that there are no "traps". We prove the law of large numbers with positive speed, as well as the ergodicity of the environment seen from the particle. Then, we consider Knudsen stochastic billiard with a drift in a random tube in ${mathbbR}^d$, $dgeq3$, which serves as environment. The tube is infinite in the first direction, and is a stationary and ergodic process indexed by the first coordinate. A particle is moving in straight line inside the tube, and has random bounces upon hitting the boundary, according to the following modification of the cosine reflection law: the jumps in the positive direction are always accepted while the jumps in the negative direction may be rejected. Using the results for the random walk in random environment together with an appropriate coupling, we deduce the law of large numbers for the stochastic billiard with a drift.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0048

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zbMATH Keywords

random mediumrandom walk in random environmentcosine lawKnudsen random walkpoint of view of the particleregenerative structurestationary ergodic environmentstochastic billiardunbounded jumps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Processes in random environments (60K37)

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