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Anomalous Heat Kernel for Random Walks in Random Environments of Conductances

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Abstract

We study the trapping phenomenon of random walks in random environments of i.i.d. random conductances on the bonds of the grid Zd\mathbb{Z}^d, the so-called random conductance model. Our main results concern the important model with conductances in [0,1][0, 1] and a polynomial-tailed law near zero for which we find the correct order of decay of the anomalous heat kernel for d5d \ge 5. In d=4d = 4, the behavior is found to be normal. In addition, we look at the symmetrical situation with conductances in [1,)[1, \infty) with a polynomial law at infinity, which also shows opposite return probability behaviors.

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@article{arxiv.1603.06323,
  title  = {Anomalous Heat Kernel for Random Walks in Random Environments of Conductances},
  author = {Omar Boukhadra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.06323},
  year   = {2025}
}