Recurrence and transience of excited random walks on $Z^d$ and strips
Martin P.W. Zerner, University of Tuebingen
Abstract
We investigate excited random walks on $Z^d, dge 1,$ and on planar strips
$Ztimes{0,1,ldots,L-1}$ which have a drift in a given direction. The strength of the drift may
depend on a random i.i.d. environment and on the local time of the walk.
We give exact criteria for recurrence and transience, thus generalizing
results by Benjamini and Wilson for once-excited random walk on $Z^d$ and by the author for
multi-excited random walk on $Z$.
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