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Excited Random Walk on Trees

Stanislav Volkov, University of Bristol, UK


Abstract
We consider a nearest-neighbor stochastic process on a rooted tree $G$ which goes toward the root with probability $1-eps$ when it visits a vertex for the first time. At all other times it behaves like a simple random walk on $G$. We show that for all $epsge 0$ this process is transient. Also we consider a generalization of this process and establish its transience in some cases.


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Published on: December 27, 2003


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