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Heat-kernel estimates for random walk among random conductances with heavy tail

Probability 2009-12-30 v4

Abstract

We study models of discrete-time, symmetric, Zd\Z^{d}-valued random walks in random environments, driven by a field of i.i.d. random nearest-neighbor conductances ωxy[0,1]\omega_{xy}\in[0,1], with polynomial tail near 0 with exponent γ>0\gamma>0. We first prove for all d5d\geq5 that the return probability shows an anomalous decay (non-Gaussian) that approches (up to sub-polynomial terms) a random constant times n2n^{-2} when we push the power γ\gamma to zero. In contrast, we prove that the heat-kernel decay is as close as we want, in a logarithmic sense, to the standard decay nd/2n^{-d/2} for large values of the parameter γ\gamma.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2669,
  title  = {Heat-kernel estimates for random walk among random conductances with heavy tail},
  author = {Omar Boukhadra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2669},
  year   = {2009}
}

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