Limit behaviour of random walks on ℤmwith two-sided membrane

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Abstract: We study Markov chains on mathbbZm, mgeq2, that behave like a standard symmetric random walk outside of the hyperplane (membrane) H=0imesmathbbZm−1. The transition probabilities on the membrane H are periodic and also depend on the incoming direction to H, what makes the membrane H two-sided. Moreover, sliding along the membrane is allowed. We show that the natural scaling limit of such Markov chains is a m-dimensional diffusion whose first coordinate is a skew Brownian motion and the other m−1 coordinates is a Brownian motion with a singular drift controlled by the local time of the first coordinate at 0. In the proof we utilize a martingale characterization of the Walsh Brownian motion and determine the effective permeability and slide direction. Eventually, a similar convergence theorem is established for the one-sided membrane without slides and random iid transition probabilities.




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