Excited against the tide: A random walk with competing drifts
Abstract
Description
We study a random walk that has a drift $\fracβ{d}$ to the right when located at a previously unvisited vertex and a drift $\fracμ{d}$ to the left otherwise. We prove that in high dimensions, for every $μ$, the drift to the right is a strictly increasing and continuous function of $β$, and that there is precisely one value $β_0(μ,d)$ for which the resulting speed is zero.
10 pages
10 pages