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European Mathematical Society Publishing House
2016-09-19 17:05:44
Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana
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0213-2230
2235-0616
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10.4171/RMI
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Which values of the volume growth and escape time exponent are possible for a graph?
Martin
Barlow
The University of British Columbia, VANCOUVER, CANADA
Graph, random walk, volume growth, anomalous diffusion
Let $\Gamma=(G,E)$ be an infinite weighted graph which is Ahlfors $\alpha$-regular, so that there exists a constant $c$ such that $c^{-1} r^\alpha\le V(x,r)\le c r^\alpha$, where $V(x,r)$ is the volume of the ball centre $x$ and radius $r$. Define the escape time $T(x,r)$ to be the mean exit time of a simple random walk on $\Gamma$ starting at $x$ from the ball centre $x$ and radius $r$. We say $\Gamma$ has escape time exponent $\beta>0$ if there exists a constant $c$ such that $c^{-1} r^\beta \le T(x,r) \le c r^\beta$ for $r\ge 1$. Well known estimates for random walks on graphs imply that $\alpha\ge 1$ and $2 \le \beta \le 1+\alpha$. We show that these are the only constraints, by constructing for each $\alpha_0$, $\beta_0$ satisfying the inequalities above a graph $\widetilde{\Gamma}$ which is Ahlfors $\alpha_0$-regular and has escape time exponent $\beta_0$. In addition we can make $\widetilde{\Gamma}$ sufficiently uniform so that it satisfies an elliptic Harnack inequality.
Probability theory and stochastic processes
Global analysis, analysis on manifolds
Statistical mechanics, structure of matter
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10.4171/RMI/378
http://www.ems-ph.org/doi/10.4171/RMI/378