Original article at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/ECP/viewarticle.php?id=1759

Random Walk Attracted by Percolation Clusters

Serguei Popov, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Marina Vachkovskaia, Universidade de Campinas, Brasil

Abstract

Starting with a percolation model in Zd in the subcritical regime, we consider a random walk described as follows: the probability of transition from x to y is proportional to some function f of the size of the cluster of y. This function is supposed to be increasing, so that the random walk is attracted by bigger clusters. For f(t)=e βt we prove that there is a phase transition in β, i.e., the random walk is subdiffusive for large β and is diffusive for small β.

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Original article at: http://www.math.washington.edu/~ejpecp/ECP/viewarticle.php?id=1759