Regularity of biased 1D random walks in random environment
Abstract
We study the asymptotic properties of nearest-neighbor random walks in 1d random environment under the influence of an external field of intensity . For ergodic shift-invariant environments, we show that the limiting velocity is always increasing and that it is everywhere analytic except at most in two points and . When and are distinct, might fail to be continuous. We refine the assumptions in \cite{Z} for having a recentered CLT with diffusivity and give explicit conditions for to be analytic. For the random conductance model we show that, in contrast with the deterministic case, is not monotone on the positive (resp.~negative) half-line and that it is not differentiable at . For this model we also prove the Einstein Relation, both in discrete and continuous time, extending the result of \cite{LD16}.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.07874,
title = {Regularity of biased 1D random walks in random environment},
author = {Alessandra Faggionato and Michele Salvi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07874},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
34 pages, 3 figure2. Corrected and extended version