Extinction time for a random walk in a random environment
Probability
2015-07-29 v3
Abstract
We consider a random walk with death in moving in a time dependent environment. The environment is a system of particles which describes a current flux from to . Its evolution is influenced by the presence of the random walk and in turn it affects the jump rates of the random walk in a neighborhood of the endpoints, determining also the rate for the random walk to die. We prove an upper bound (uniform in ) for the survival probability up to time which goes as , with and positive constants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1304.0622,
title = {Extinction time for a random walk in a random environment},
author = {Anna De Masi and Errico Presutti and Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis and Maria Eulalia Vares},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0622},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/14-BEJ627 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)