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Continuous-time vertex reinforced jump processes on Galton-Watson trees

Probability 2012-09-25 v2

Abstract

We consider a continuous-time vertex reinforced jump process on a supercritical Galton-Watson tree. This process takes values in the set of vertices of the tree and jumps to a neighboring vertex with rate proportional to the local time at that vertex plus a constant cc. The walk is either transient or recurrent depending on this parameter cc. In this paper, we complete results previously obtained by Davis and Volkov [Probab. Theory Related Fields 123 (2002) 281-300, Probab. Theory Related Fields 128 (2004) 42-62] and Collevecchio [Ann. Probab. 34 (2006) 870-878, Electron. J. Probab. 14 (2009) 1936-1962] by proving that there is a unique (explicit) positive ccritc_{\mathrm{crit}} such that the walk is recurrent for cccritc\leq c_{\mathrm{crit}} and transient for c>ccritc>c_{\mathrm{crit}}.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3607,
  title  = {Continuous-time vertex reinforced jump processes on Galton-Watson trees},
  author = {Anne-Laure Basdevant and Arvind Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3607},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-AAP811 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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