Quenched scaling limits of trap models

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Abstract: Fix a strictly positive measure W on the d-dimensional torus . For an integer Nge1, denote by WxN, x=(x1,...,xd), 0lexi<N, the W-measure of the cube [x/N,(x+mb1)/N), where mb1 is the vector with all components equal to 1. In dimension 1, we prove that the hydrodynamic behavior of a superposition of independent random walks, in which a particle jumps from x/N to one of its neighbors at rate (NWxN)−1, is described in the diffusive scaling by the linear differential equation partialtho=(d/dW)(d/dx)ho. In dimension d>1, if W is a finite discrete measure, W=sumige1wideltaxi, we prove that the random walk which jumps from x/N uniformly to one of its neighbors at rate (WxN)−1 has a metastable behavior, as defined in cite{bl1}, described by the K-process introduced in cite{fm1}.


The paper refers to scaling limits of random walks in random trap environments. In a first result one proves the hydrodynamic behaviour of a superposition of independent random walks which evolve on a one-dimensional torus with a trap environment of stable i.i.d. random variables. In the second result, one characterises the evolution of the random walk (in the random environment) generated by i.i.d. random variables in dimension larger than two.




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