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Random walk on random walks: low densities

2017/09/05 by Blondel, Oriane, Hilario, Marcelo R., Santos, Renato Soares dos +2
#FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.01257

Abstract

We consider a random walker in a dynamic random environment given by a system of independent simple symmetric random walks. We obtain ballisticity results under two types of perturbations: low particle density, and strong local drift on particles. Surprisingly, the random walker may behave very differently depending on whether the underlying environment particles perform lazy or non-lazy random walks, which is related to a notion of permeability of the system. We also provide a strong law of large numbers, a functional central limit theorem and large deviation bounds under an ellipticity condition.

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