Random walks on discrete cylinders and random interlacements

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 145 - Trang 143-174 - 2008
Alain-Sol Sznitman1
1Departement Mathematik, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tóm tắt

We explore some of the connections between the local picture left by the trace of simple random walk on a cylinder $${(\mathbb {Z} / N\mathbb {Z})^d \times \mathbb {Z}}$$ , d ≥ 2, running for times of order N 2d and the model of random interlacements recently introduced in Sznitman ( http://www.math.ethz.ch/u/sznitman/preprints ). In particular, we show that for large N in the neighborhood of a point of the cylinder with vertical component of order N d the complement of the set of points visited by the walk up to times of order N 2d is close in distribution to the law of the vacant set of random interlacements with a level which is determined by an independent Brownian local time. The limit behavior of the joint distribution of the local pictures in the neighborhood of finitely many points is also derived.

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