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Regularity of biased 1D random walks in random environment

Probability 2018-06-11 v2

Abstract

We study the asymptotic properties of nearest-neighbor random walks in 1d random environment under the influence of an external field of intensity λR\lambda\in\mathbb{R}. For ergodic shift-invariant environments, we show that the limiting velocity v(λ)v(\lambda) is always increasing and that it is everywhere analytic except at most in two points λ\lambda_- and λ+\lambda_+. When λ\lambda_- and λ+\lambda_+ are distinct, v(λ)v(\lambda) might fail to be continuous. We refine the assumptions in \cite{Z} for having a recentered CLT with diffusivity σ2(λ)\sigma^2(\lambda) and give explicit conditions for σ2(λ)\sigma^2(\lambda) to be analytic. For the random conductance model we show that, in contrast with the deterministic case, σ2(λ)\sigma^2(\lambda) is not monotone on the positive (resp.~negative) half-line and that it is not differentiable at λ=0\lambda=0. For this model we also prove the Einstein Relation, both in discrete and continuous time, extending the result of \cite{LD16}.

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@article{arxiv.1802.07874,
  title  = {Regularity of biased 1D random walks in random environment},
  author = {Alessandra Faggionato and Michele Salvi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07874},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

34 pages, 3 figure2. Corrected and extended version

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