Large Deviations for a Random Walk in Random Environment

Averaged Large Deviations for Random Walk in a Random Environment

Abstract. In his 2003 paper, Varadhan proves the averaged large deviation principle (LDP) for the mean velocity of a particle performing random walk in a random environment (RWRE) on Z with d ≥ 1, and gives a variational formula for the corresponding rate function Ia. Under the non-nestling assumption (resp. Kalikow’s condition), we show that Ia is strictly convex and analytic on a non-empty op...

Large Deviations for Random Walk in a Random Environment

In this work, we study the large deviation properties of random walk in a random environment on Z with d ≥ 1. We start with the quenched case, take the point of view of the particle, and prove the large deviation principle (LDP) for the pair empirical measure of the environment Markov chain. By an appropriate contraction, we deduce the quenched LDP for the mean velocity of the particle and obta...

Quenched Large Deviations for Random Walk in a Random Environment

We take the point of view of a particle performing random walk with bounded jumps on Z in a stationary and ergodic random environment. We prove the quenched large deviation principle (LDP) for the pair empirical measure of the environment Markov chain. By an appropriate contraction, we deduce the quenched LDP for the mean velocity of the particle and obtain a variational formula for the corresp...

Large Deviations for Random Walk in Random

Large deviations for one-dimensional random walk in a random environment - a survey

Suppose that the integers are assigned i.i.d. random variables f! x g (taking values in the unit interval), which serve as an environment. This environment deenes a random walk fX n g (called a RWRE) which, when at x, moves one step to the right with probability ! x , and one step to the left with probability 1 ? ! x. Solomon (1975) determined the almost-sure asymptotic speed v (=rate of escape...