Edge-reinforced random walk on a ladder

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We prove that the edge-reinforced random walk on the ladder ${\mathbb{Z}\times\{1,2\}}$ with initial weights $a>3/4$ is recurrent. The proof uses a known representation of the edge-reinforced random walk on a finite piece of the ladder as a random walk in a random environment. This environment is given by a marginal of a multicomponent Gibbsian process. A transfer operator technique and entropy estimates from statistical mechanics are used to analyze this Gibbsian process. Furthermore, we prove spatially exponentially fast decreasing bounds for normalized local times of the edge-reinforced random walk on a finite piece of the ladder, uniformly in the size of the finite piece.
Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000396 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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Probability, 82B41 (Primary) 60K35, 60K37 (Secondary)

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/101013

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https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501137
 http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501137
 Annals of Probability 2005, Vol. 33, No. 6, 2051-2093
 doi:10.1214/009117905000000396

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