The critical branching random walk in a random environment dies out

DOI10.1214/ECP.V18-2438zbMATH Open1306.60153arXiv1211.3827MaRDI QIDQ742969FDOQ742969

Olivier Garet, Régine Marchand

Publication date: 22 September 2014

Published in: Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the possibility for branching random walks in random environment (BRWRE) to survive. The particles perform simple symmetric random walks on the $d$-dimensional integer lattice, while at each time unit, they split into independent copies according to time-space i.i.d. offspring distributions. As noted by Comets and Yoshida, the BRWRE is naturally associated with the directed polymers in random environment (DPRE), for which the quantity $Psi$ called the free energy is well studied. Comets and Yoshida proved that there is no survival when $Psi<0$ and that survival is possible when $Psi>0$. We proved here that, except for degenerate cases, the BRWRE always die when $Psi=0$. This solves a conjecture of Comets and Yoshida.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3827

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zbMATH Keywords

survivalrandom environmentrenormalizationcritical behaviorbranching random walkblock construction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Processes in random environments (60K37) Percolation (82B43)

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