Conjecture on the potential energy of a biased random walk on a tree
Conjecture on the potential energy of a biased random walk on a tree
Let be the random walk in a random environment on a tree, let denote its potential energy, and let be the governing probability measure. Assume
. Potential-energy conjecture. Under , on the set of non-extinction, converges weakly to a limit law which is finite and strictly positive. This conjecture predicts that the potential energy at time has logarithmic scale, much smaller than the maximum potential energy up to time , whose almost-sure growth is under the stated assumptions. The source presents this as an expectation, and gives no resolution.
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Yueyun Hu and Zhan Shi, “The maximal potential energy of biased random walks on trees”, arXiv:1403.6799 (2025).
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