Sznitman's conjecture that condition (T′)(T') is equivalent to ballisticity

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Let PP be the law of a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment on Zd\mathbb{Z}^{d}, and let ℓ0∈Sd−1\ell_{0}\in S^{d-1} be a direction. For 0<γ≤10<\gamma\leq 1, condition (Tγ)(T_{\gamma}) in direction ℓ0\ell_{0} means that for every ℓ∈Sd−1\ell\in S^{d-1} in some neighborhood of ℓ0\ell_{0}, there is a finite constant CC such that

P0(TL(−ℓ)<TL(ℓ))<Ce−Lγ.\mathbb{P}^{0}\left(T_{L}^{(-\ell)}<T_{L}^{(\ell)}\right)<Ce^{-L^{\gamma}}.

Condition (T′)(T') means that (Tγ)(T_{\gamma}) holds for some 12<γ<1\frac{1}{2}<\gamma<1. The walk is ballistic when its limiting velocity v\mathbb{v} is nonzero.

Sznitman's conjecture. Condition (T′)(T') is equivalent to ballisticity.

Sznitman proved that condition (T′)(T') implies ballisticity and that, under this assumption, (T′)(T') holds in every direction having positive inner product with the limiting velocity. The converse implication, that ballisticity implies condition (T′)(T'), is the conjectural part.

References

Primary source

Noam Berger, Moran Cohen and Ron Rosenthal, “Local limit theorem and equivalence of dynamic and static points of view for certain ballistic random walks in i.i.d. environments”, arXiv:1405.6819 (2016).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2014). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0811.1710.

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