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Once-Reinforced and Self-Interacting Random Walks beyond exchangeability

Probability 2025-09-05 v1

Abstract

We present the first rigorous quantitative analysis of once-reinforced random walks (ORRW) on general graphs, based on a novel change of measure formula.~This enables us to prove large deviations estimates for the range of the walk to have cardinality of the order Nd/(d+2)N^{d/(d+2)} in dimension larger than or equal than two. We also prove that ORRW is transient on all non-amenable graphs for small reinforcement.~Moreover, we study the shape of oriented ORRW on euclidean lattices. We also provide a new approach to the study of general self-interacting random walk, which we apply to random walk in random environment, reinforced processes on oriented graphs, including the directed ORRW.

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@article{arxiv.2509.04318,
  title  = {Once-Reinforced and Self-Interacting Random Walks beyond exchangeability},
  author = {Andrea Collevecchio and Pierre Tarrès},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04318},
  year   = {2025}
}

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