Electronic Communications in Probability

Large deviations for the local times of a random walk among random conductances

Abstract

We derive an annealed large deviation principle for the normalised local times of a continuous-time random walk among random conductances in a finite domain in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ in the spirit of Donsker-Varadhan [DV75-83]. We work in the interesting case that the conductances may assume arbitrarily small values. Thus, the underlying picture of the principle is a joint strategy of small values of the conductances and large holding times of the walk. The speed and the rate function of our principle are explicit in terms of the lower tails of the conductance distribution. As an application, we identify the logarithmic asymptotics of the lower tails of the principal eigenvalue of the randomized negative Laplace operator in the domain.

Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 17 (2012), paper no. 10, 11 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 18 February 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 7 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465263143

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/ECP.v17-1820

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2892409

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1247.60064

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Citation

König, Wolfgang; Salvi, Michele; Wolff, Tilman. Large deviations for the local times of a random walk among random conductances. Electron. Commun. Probab. 17 (2012), paper no. 10, 11 pp. doi:10.1214/ECP.v17-1820. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465263143

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