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Quenched path limits and periodization stability for tilted Brownian motion in Poissonian potentials on $\mathbb{H}^d$

Probability 2026-02-23 v1 Differential Geometry Spectral Theory

Abstract

We analyze the existence of Brownian motion tilted by a potential of full support on hyperbolic spaces Hd\mathbb{H}^d. On compact spaces, it is classical that these path limits, called Q-processes, exist and can be directly defined using the ground state of the corresponding Schr\"odinger operator. On non-compact spaces like Hd\mathbb{H}^d, the existence fails in general. We show that for \emph{stationary random} potentials on Hd\mathbb{H}^d with suitable spectral and sup norm bounds, the Q-processes exist a.s. For potentials that are factors of a Poisson point process, the method works up to sup norm (d1)2/8(d-1)^2/8. In this case, we also show that the path limit can be approximated by periodic potentials. As a tool, we use the foliated space defined by the point process. It turns out that the global ground state of this foliated space serves as a substitute for the non-existing L2L^2 ground states on the leaves of the foliation. Restricting the global ground state to a leaf gives a generalized eigenwave that can be plugged into the usual machinery to get the Q-process.

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@article{arxiv.2602.18433,
  title  = {Quenched path limits and periodization stability for tilted Brownian motion in Poissonian potentials on $\mathbb{H}^d$},
  author = {Miklos Abert and Adam Arras and Jaelin Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18433},
  year   = {2026}
}