Scaling of a random walk on a supercritical contact process

DOI10.1214/13-AIHP561zbMATH Open1322.60020arXiv1209.1511MaRDI QIDQ479712FDOQ479712

Authors: F. den Hollander, Renato Soares dos Santos 

Publication date: 5 December 2014

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

Abstract: A proof is provided of a strong law of large numbers for a one-dimensional random walk in a dynamic random environment given by a supercritical contact process in equilibrium. The proof is based on a coupling argument that traces the space-time cones containing the infection clusters generated by single infections and uses that the random walk eventually gets trapped inside the union of these cones. For the case where the local drifts of the random walk are smaller than the speed at which infection clusters grow, the random walk eventually gets trapped inside a single cone. This in turn leads to the existence of regeneration times at which the random walk forgets its past. The latter are used to prove a functional central limit theorem and a large deviation principle. The qualitative dependence of the speed, the volatility and the rate function on the infection parameter is investigated, and some open problems are mentioned.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1511

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zbMATH Keywords

random walkfunctional central limit theoremstrong law of large numberscouplinglarge deviation principledynamic random environmentregeneration timesclusters of infectionsspace-time conessupercritical contact process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Processes in random environments (60K37) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

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