## Electronic Journal of Probability

### New examples of ballistic RWRE in the low disorder regime

#### Abstract

We give a new criterion for ballistic behavior of random walks in random environments which are low disorder perturbations of the simple symmetric random walk on $\mathbb{Z} ^{d}$, for $d\geq 2$. This extends the results from 2003 established by Sznitman in [12] and, in particular, allow us to give new examples of ballistic RWREs in dimension $d=3$ which do not satisfy Kalikow’s condition, through a new sharp version of Kalikow’s criteria. Essentially, this new criterion states that ballisticity occurs whenever the average local drift of the walk is not too small when compared to the standard deviation of the environment. Its proof relies on applying coarse-graining methods together with a variation of the Azuma-Hoeffding concentration inequality in order to verify the fulfillment of a ballisticity condition by Berger, Drewitz and Ramírez.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 24 (2019), paper no. 127, 20 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 16 October 2019
First available in Project Euclid: 9 November 2019

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1573268591

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/19-EJP374

#### Citation

Ramírez, Alejandro F.; Saglietti, Santiago. New examples of ballistic RWRE in the low disorder regime. Electron. J. Probab. 24 (2019), paper no. 127, 20 pp. doi:10.1214/19-EJP374. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1573268591

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