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Generalized Excited Random Walks under Bernoulli excitations

Probability 2026-05-27 v4

Abstract

We study a variant of the Generalized Excited Random Walk (GERW) on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d introduced by Menshikov, Popov, Ram\'irez and Vachkovskaia in [Ann. Probab. 40 (5), 2012]. It consists of a particular version of the model studied in [arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05715, 2022] where excitation may or may not occur according to a time-dependent probability. Specifically, given {pn}n1\{p_n\}_{n \ge 1}, pn(0,1]p_n \in (0, 1] for all n1n \ge 1, whenever the process visits a site at time nn for the first time, with probability pnp_n it gains a drift in a fixed direction. Otherwise, it behaves as a dd-martingale with zero-mean vector. We refer to the model as pnp_n-GERW. Assuming bounded jumps and pnnβp_n \approx n^{-\beta}, we show a series of results for the pnp_n-\Name{} depending on the value of β\beta and on the dimension dd. Specifically, for every β(0,1]\beta\in(0,1] and d=2d=2 or d>h(β)d>h(\beta), with hh a decreasing function of β\beta, we prove a SLLN for the range, while for β<1/2\beta<1/2 we prove a sub-ballistic SLLN for the process whenever the SLLN for the range holds. We also study the pnp_n-\Name{} under diffusive scaling, and we obtain a Functional Central Limit Theorem for β>1/2\beta > 1/2 and d2d\geq 2, or β=1/2\beta=1/2 and d=2d=2. Finally, for β=1/2\beta=1/2 and d11d \ge 11 we show that the diffusively rescaled pnp_n-\Name{} converges in distribution to a Brownian Motion plus a multiple of the square root of time.

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@article{arxiv.2303.12228,
  title  = {Generalized Excited Random Walks under Bernoulli excitations},
  author = {Rodrigo B. Alves and Giulio Iacobelli and Glauco Valle and Leonel Zuaznábar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.12228},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

We improve Proposition 2.2 from d > 22 to d > 12, and as a consequence we also improve the SLLN for the range of the process for d > h(\beta). We have made a series of adjustments and corrections throughout, and update the title for greater precision

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