Random walks in a sparse random environment

DOI10.1214/16-EJP16MaRDI QIDQ728446zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anastasios Matzavinos, Alexander Roitershtein, Youngsoo Seol

Publication date 20 December 2016

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.06443, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1480993226

zbMATH Keywords

random walkslimit theoremsSinai's walksparse random environments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Processes in random environments (60K37)

Abstract: We introduce random walks in a sparse random environment on $mathbbZ$ and investigate basic asymptotic properties of this model, such as recurrence-transience, asymptotic speed, and limit theorems in both the transient and recurrent regimes. The new model combines features of several existing models of random motion in random media and admits a transparent physical interpretation. More specifically, a random walk in a sparse random environment can be characterized as a "locally strong" perturbation of a simple random walk by a random potential induced by "rare impurities," which are randomly distributed over the integer lattice. Interestingly, in the critical (recurrent) regime, our model generalizes Sinai's scaling of $(logn{)}^2$ for the location of the random walk after $n$ steps to $(logn{)}^{a}lpha,$ where $alpha>0$ is a parameter determined by the distribution of the distance between two successive impurities. Similar scaling factors have appeared in the literature in different contexts and have been discussed in [28] and [30].

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