The slow regime of randomly biased walks on trees

Citation
Hu, Yueyun et Shi, Zhan, The slow regime of randomly biased walks on trees, Annals of probability (Online) , 44(6), 2016, pp. 3893-3933
ISSN journal
2168894X
Volume
44
Issue
6
Year of publication
2016
Pages
3893 - 3933
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
We are interested in the randomly biased random walk on the supercritical Galton.Watson tree. Our attention is focused on a slow regime when the biased random walk (Xn) is null recurrent, making a maximal displacement of order of magnitude (logn)3 in the first n steps. We study the localization problem of Xn and prove that the quenched law of Xn can be approximated by a certain invariant probability depending on n and the random environment. As a consequence, we establish that upon the survival of the system, |Xn|(logn)2 converges in law to some non-degenerate limit on (0,.) whose law is explicitly computed.