Large deviations for transient random walks in random environment on a Galton-Watson tree
Aidékon, Elie
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 46 (2010), p. 159-189 / Harvested from Numdam
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Nous considérons une marche aléatoire en milieu aléatoire sur un arbre de Galton-Watson. Soit τn le temps d'atteinte du niveau n. Le papier présente un principe de grandes déviations pour τn/n, dans les cas quenched et annealed. Nous étudions ensuite le régime sous-exponentiel, qui fait apparaître un régime polynomial rappelant la dimension 1. Le papier repose principalement sur les estimations de la queue de distribution du premier temps de renouvellement.

Consider a random walk in random environment on a supercritical Galton-Watson tree, and let τn be the hitting time of generation n. The paper presents a large deviation principle for τn/n, both in quenched and annealed cases. Then we investigate the subexponential situation, revealing a polynomial regime similar to the one encountered in one dimension. The paper heavily relies on estimates on the tail distribution of the first regeneration time.

Publié le : 2010-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1214/09-AIHP204
Classification:  60K37,  60J80,  60F15,  60F10 
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Aidékon, Elie. Large deviations for transient random walks in random environment on a Galton-Watson tree. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 46 (2010) pp. 159-189. doi : 10.1214/09-AIHP204. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPB_2010__46_1_159_0/

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