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Simple Random Walk on Long Range Percolation Clusters II: Scaling Limits

Probability 2010-01-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study limit laws for simple random walks on supercritical long range percolation clusters on Zd,d1\Z^d, d \geq 1. For the long range percolation model, the probability that two vertices x,yx, y are connected behaves asymptotically as xy2s\|x-y\|_2^{-s}. When s(d,d+1)s\in(d, d+1), we prove that the scaling limit of simple random walk on the infinite component converges to an α\alpha-stable L\'evy process with α=sd\alpha = s-d establishing a conjecture of Berger and Biskup. The convergence holds in both the quenched and annealed senses. In the case where d=1d=1 and s>2s>2 we show that the simple random walk converges to a Brownian motion. The proof combines heat kernel bounds from our companion paper, ergodic theory estimates and an involved coupling constructed through the exploration of a large number of walks on the cluster.

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@article{arxiv.0911.5668,
  title  = {Simple Random Walk on Long Range Percolation Clusters II: Scaling Limits},
  author = {Nicholas Crawford and Allan Sly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5668},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

47 pages. Minor Revision

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