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Limit behaviour of random walks on $\mathbb Z^m$ with two-sided membrane

Probability 2021-08-05 v1

Abstract

We study Markov chains on Zm\mathbb Z^m, m2m\geq 2, that behave like a standard symmetric random walk outside of the hyperplane (membrane) H={0}×Zm1H=\{0\}\times \mathbb Z^{m-1}. The transition probabilities on the membrane HH are periodic and also depend on the incoming direction to HH, what makes the membrane HH two-sided. Moreover, sliding along the membrane is allowed. We show that the natural scaling limit of such Markov chains is a mm-dimensional diffusion whose first coordinate is a skew Brownian motion and the other m1m-1 coordinates is a Brownian motion with a singular drift controlled by the local time of the first coordinate at 00. In the proof we utilize a martingale characterization of the Walsh Brownian motion and determine the effective permeability and slide direction. Eventually, a similar convergence theorem is established for the one-sided membrane without slides and random iid transition probabilities.

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@article{arxiv.2108.02193,
  title  = {Limit behaviour of random walks on $\mathbb Z^m$ with two-sided membrane},
  author = {V. Bogdanskii and I. Pavlyukevich and A. Pilipenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.02193},
  year   = {2021}
}

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