Date
Mon, 24 Nov 2008
15:45
Location
Oxford-Man Institute
Speaker
Prof. Nathanael Enriquez
Organisation
Paris X

We consider transient random walks in random environment on Z with zero asymptotic speed. In a seminal paper, Kesten, Kozlov and Spitzer proved that the hitting time of the level "n" converges in law, after a proper normalization, towards a positive stable law, but the question of the description of its parameter was left open since that time. A new approach to this problem, based on a precise description of Sinai's potential, leads to a complete characterization of this stable law, making a tight link with Kesten's renewal series. The case of Dirichlet environment turns out to be remarkably explicit. Quenched results on this model will be presented if time permits.

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