## The Annals of Probability

### Anchored expansion, percolation and speed

#### Abstract

Benjamini, Lyons and Schramm [Random Walks and Discrete Potential Theory (1999) 56–84] considered properties of an infinite graph G, and the simple random walk on it, that are preserved by random perturbations. In this paper we solve several problems raised by those authors. The anchored expansion constant is a variant of the Cheeger constant; its positivity implies positive lower speed for the simple random walk, as shown by Virág [Geom. Funct. Anal. 10 (2000) 1588–1605]. We prove that if G has a positive anchored expansion constant, then so does every infinite cluster of independent percolation with parameter p sufficiently close to 1; a better estimate for the parameters p where this holds is in the Appendix. We also show that positivity of the anchored expansion constant is preserved under a random stretch if and only if the stretching law has an exponential tail. We then study a simple random walk in the infinite percolation cluster in Cayley graphs of certain amenable groups known as “lamplighter groups.” We prove that zero speed for a random walk on a lamplighter group implies zero speed for random walk on an infinite cluster, for any supercritical percolation parameter p. For p large enough, we also establish the converse.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Probab., Volume 32, Number 4 (2004), 2978-2995.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 8 February 2005

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1107883344

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/009117904000000586

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2094436

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1069.60093

#### Citation

Chen, Dayue; Peres, Yuval; Pete, Gábor. Anchored expansion, percolation and speed. Ann. Probab. 32 (2004), no. 4, 2978--2995. doi:10.1214/009117904000000586. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1107883344

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