Recurrence and transience of a multi-excited random walk on a regular tree
Abstract
We study a model of multi-excited random walk on a regular tree which generalizes the models of the once excited random walk and the digging random walk introduced by Volkov (2003). We show the existence of a phase transition of the recurrence/transience property of the walk. In particular, we prove that the asymptotic behavior of the walk depends on the order of the excitations, which contrasts with the one dimensional setting studied by Zerner (2005). We also consider the limiting speed of the walk in the transient regime and conjecture that it is not a monotonic function of the environment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0803.3284,
title = {Recurrence and transience of a multi-excited random walk on a regular tree},
author = {Anne-Laure Basdevant and Arvind Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.3284},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Major modifications. Simplified the proof of recurrence/transience and added a proof of recurrence in the critical case. Added a criterion for positive speed, CLT, and positive recurrence