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Subdiffusivity of a random walk among a Poisson system of moving traps on ${\mathbb Z}$

Probability 2017-02-01 v1

Abstract

We consider a random walk among a Poisson system of moving traps on Z{\mathbb Z}. In earlier work [DGRS12], the quenched and annealed survival probabilities of this random walk have been investigated. Here we study the path of the random walk conditioned on survival up to time tt in the annealed case and show that it is subdiffusive. As a by-product, we obtain an upper bound on the number of so-called thin points of a one-dimensional random walk, as well as a bound on the total volume of the holes in the random walk's range.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01709,
  title  = {Subdiffusivity of a random walk among a Poisson system of moving traps on ${\mathbb Z}$},
  author = {Siva Athreya and Alexander Drewitz and Rongfeng Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01709},
  year   = {2017}
}