TY - JOUR
T1 - Quenched invariance principles for random walks and elliptic diffusions in random media with boundary
AU - Chen, Zhen Qing
AU - Croydon, David A.
AU - Kumagai, Takashi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Via a Dirichlet form extension theorem and making full use of two-sided heat kernel estimates, we establish quenched invariance principles for random walks in random environments with a boundary. In particular, we prove that the random walk on a supercritical percolation cluster or among random conductances bounded uniformly from below in a half-space, quarter-space, etc., converges when rescaled diffusively to a reflecting Brownian motion, which has been one of the important open problems in this area. We establish a similar result for the random conductance model in a box, which allows us to improve existing asymptotic estimates for the relevant mixing time. Furthermore, in the uniformly elliptic case, we present quenched invariance principles for domains with more general boundaries.
AB - Via a Dirichlet form extension theorem and making full use of two-sided heat kernel estimates, we establish quenched invariance principles for random walks in random environments with a boundary. In particular, we prove that the random walk on a supercritical percolation cluster or among random conductances bounded uniformly from below in a half-space, quarter-space, etc., converges when rescaled diffusively to a reflecting Brownian motion, which has been one of the important open problems in this area. We establish a similar result for the random conductance model in a box, which allows us to improve existing asymptotic estimates for the relevant mixing time. Furthermore, in the uniformly elliptic case, we present quenched invariance principles for domains with more general boundaries.
KW - Dirichlet form
KW - Heat kernel
KW - Quenched invariance principle
KW - Random conductance model
KW - Supercritical percolation
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U2 - 10.1214/14-AOP914
DO - 10.1214/14-AOP914
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84930836442
SN - 0091-1798
VL - 43
SP - 1594
EP - 1642
JO - Annals of Probability
JF - Annals of Probability
IS - 4
ER -