English

Invariance principles for rough walks in random conductances

Probability 2026-04-17 v2

Abstract

We establish annealed and quenched invariance principles for random walks in random conductances lifted to the p-variation rough path topology, allowing for degenerate environments and long-range jumps. Our proof is based on a unified structural strategy where pathwise convergence is viewed as a natural upgrade of the classical theory. This approach decouples the martingale lift from terms involving the integrals with respect to the corrector and the quadratic covariations. In the quenched regime, we show that the existence of a stationary potential for the corrector with 2+ϵ2+\epsilon moments is sufficient to ensure the vanishing of the corrector in pp-variation for any p>2p>2. This input, combined with our structural framework, provides a direct and modular pathway to rough path convergence. We further provide a transfer lemma to construct this potential from spatial moment bounds. While presently verified in the literature primarily for nearest-neighbor settings, our formulation isolates the exact analytic input required for pathwise convergence in more general environments.

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@article{arxiv.2603.18748,
  title  = {Invariance principles for rough walks in random conductances},
  author = {Johannes Bäumler and Noam Berger and Tal Orenshtein and Martin Slowik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.18748},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

54 pages. v2: new remark on covariance non-degeneracy, minor revisions and typo fixes

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:27:50.953Z