Phase transition for the Once-reinforced random walk on Zd-like trees

Citation
Kious, Daniel et Sidoravicius, Vladas, Phase transition for the Once-reinforced random walk on Zd-like trees, Annals of probability (Online) , 46(4), 2018, pp. 2121-2133
ISSN journal
2168894X
Volume
46
Issue
4
Year of publication
2018
Pages
2121 - 2133
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
In this short paper, we consider the Once-reinforced random walk with reinforcement parameter a on trees with bounded degree which are transient for the simple random walk. On each of these trees, we prove that there exists an explicit critical parameter a0 such that the Once-reinforced random walk is almost surely recurrent if a>a0 and almost surely transient if a<a0. This provides the first examples of phase transition for the Once-reinforced random walk.