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Universality of trap models in the ergodic time scale

Probability 2012-08-29 v1

Abstract

Consider a sequence of possibly random graphs GN=(VN,EN)G_N=(V_N, E_N), N1N\ge 1, whose vertices's have i.i.d. weights {WxN:xVN}\{W^N_x : x\in V_N\} with a distribution belonging to the basin of attraction of an α\alpha-stable law, 0<α<10<\alpha<1. Let XtNX^N_t, t0t \ge 0, be a continuous time simple random walk on GNG_N which waits a \emph{mean} WxNW^N_x exponential time at each vertex xx. Under considerably general hypotheses, we prove that in the ergodic time scale this trap model converges in an appropriate topology to a KK-process. We apply this result to a class of graphs which includes the hypercube, the dd-dimensional torus, d2d\ge 2, random dd-regular graphs and the largest component of super-critical Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1208.5675,
  title  = {Universality of trap models in the ergodic time scale},
  author = {M. Jara and C. Landim and A. Teixeira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5675},
  year   = {2012}
}