A crossover for the bad configurations of random walk in random scenery

DOI10.1214/11-AOP664zbMATH Open1237.60034arXiv1103.1780MaRDI QIDQ651012FDOQ651012

Authors: Sébastien Blachère, Jeffrey E. Steif, F. den Hollander 

Publication date: 8 December 2011

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

Abstract: In this paper, we consider a random walk and a random color scenery on Z. The increments of the walk and the colors of the scenery are assumed to be i.i.d. and to be independent of each other. We are interested in the random process of colors seen by the walk in the course of time. Bad configurations for this random process are the discontinuity points of the conditional probability distribution for the color seen at time zero given the colors seen at all later times. We focus on the case where the random walk has increments 0, +1 or -1 with probability epsilon, (1-epsilon)p and (1-epsilon)(1-p), respectively, with p in [1/2,1] and epsilon in [0,1), and where the scenery assigns the color black or white to the sites of Z with probability 1/2 each. We show that, remarkably, the set of bad configurations exhibits a crossover: for epsilon=0 and p in (1/2,4/5) all configurations are bad, while for (p,epsilon) in an open neighborhood of (1,0) all configurations are good. In addition, we show that for epsilon=0 and p=1/2 both bad and good configurations exist. We conjecture that for all epsilon in [0,1) the crossover value is unique and equals 4/5. Finally, we suggest an approach to handle the seemingly more difficult case where epsilon>0 and p in [1/2,4/5), which will be pursued in future work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1780

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zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsrandom walk in random scenerybad and good configurationsconditional probability distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Processes in random environments (60K37) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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