Recurrence for the frog model with drift on $\mathbb{Z}^d$

Christian Döbler (Technische Universität München)
Lorenz Pfeifroth (Technische Universität München)

Abstract


In this paper we present a recurrence criterion for the frog model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with an i.i.d. initial configuration of sleeping frogs and such that the underlying random walk has a drift to the right.

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Publication Date: November 14, 2014

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v19-3740

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