Reversed Dirichlet environment and directional transience of random walks in Dirichlet random environment

Details Reversed Dirichlet environment and directional transience of random walks in Dirichlet random environment Reversed Dirichlet environment and directional transience of random walks in Dirichlet random environment

2009-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/0905.3917v2

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8 pages, 1 figure

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We consider random walks in a random environment that is given by i.i.d. Dirichlet distributions at each vertex of Z^d or, equivalently, oriented edge reinforced random walks on Z^d. The parameters of the distribution are a 2d-uplet of positive real numbers indexed by the unit vectors of Z^d. We prove that, as soon as these weights are nonsymmetric, the random walk in this random environment is transient in a direction with positive probability. In dimension 2, this result can be strenghened to an almost sure directional transience thanks to the 0-1 law from [ZM01]. Our proof relies on the property of stability of Dirichlet environment by time reversal proved in [Sa09]. In a first part of this paper, we also give a probabilistic proof of this property as an alternative to the change of variable computation used in that article.

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