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Uniform spanning forest on the integer lattice with drift in one coordinate

Probability 2020-09-03 v1

Abstract

In this article we investigate the Uniform Spanning Forest (USF\mathsf{USF}) in the nearest-neighbour integer lattice Zd+1=Z×Zd\mathbf{Z}^{d+1} = \mathbf{Z}\times \mathbf{Z}^d with an assignment of conductances that makes the underlying (Network) Random Walk (NRW\mathsf{NRW}) drifted towards the right of the first coordinate. This assignment of conductances has exponential growth and decay; in particular, the measure of balls can be made arbitrarily close to zero or arbitrarily large. We establish upper and lower bounds for its Green's function. We show that in dimension d=1,2d = 1, 2 the USF\mathsf{USF} consists of a single tree while in d3,d \geq 3, there are infinitely many trees. We then show, by an intricate study of multiple NRW\mathsf{NRW}s, that in every dimension the trees are one-ended; the technique for d=2d = 2 is completely new, while the technique for d3d \geq 3 is a major makeover of the technique for the proof of the same result for the graph Zd.\mathbf{Z}^d. We finally establish the probability that two or more vertices are USF\mathsf{USF}-connected and study the distance between different trees.

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@article{arxiv.2009.01204,
  title  = {Uniform spanning forest on the integer lattice with drift in one coordinate},
  author = {Guillermo Martinez Dibene},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01204},
  year   = {2020}
}

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68 pages

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