A special set of exceptional times for dynamical random walk on $Z^2$

Gideon Amir (University of Toronto)
Christopher Hoffman (University of Washington)

Abstract


In [2] Benjamini, Haggstrom, Peres and Steif introduced the model of dynamical random walk on the $d$-dimensional lattice $Z^d$. This is a continuum of random walks indexed by a time parameter $t$. They proved that for dimensions $d=3,4$ there almost surely exist times $t$ such that the random walk at time $t$ visits the origin infinitely often, but for dimension 5 and up there almost surely do not exist such $t$. Hoffman showed that for dimension 2 there almost surely exists $t$ such that the random walk at time $t$ visits the origin only finitely many times [5]. We refine the results of [5] for dynamical random walk on $Z^2$, showing that with probability one the are times when the origin is visited only a finite number of times while other points are visited infinitely often.

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Pages: 1927-1951

Publication Date: October 30, 2008

DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v13-571

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