English

Mixing of a generic simple symmetric random walk on the circle

Probability 2024-02-08 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Fix an irrational number α\alpha and a real function p\mathfrak{p} on the circle with 0<p<10<\mathfrak{p}<1. If a particle is placed at a point xR/Zx\in \mathbb R/\mathbb Z, then in the next step it jumps to x+αx+\alpha with probability p(x)\mathfrak{p}(x) and to xαx-\alpha with probability 1p(x)1-\mathfrak{p}(x). Sinai and Kaloshin proved that if p\mathfrak{p} is smooth then the random walk is uniquely ergodic and mixing, unless α\alpha is Liouville and p\mathfrak{p} is symmetric. Unique ergodicity in the general case has been obtained by Conze and Guivarc'h. Here we give an alternative proof of the latter as well as some generic result about mixing, which partially solves a recent open problem.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.14559,
  title  = {Mixing of a generic simple symmetric random walk on the circle},
  author = {Klaudiusz Czudek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14559},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures. The manuscript has been merged with arXiv:2301.01496 and made much more concise. The main result of arXiv:2301.01496 is more general and the strategy of proof slightly changed