August 2024 Random walks on decorated Galton–Watson trees
Eleanor Archer
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Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 60(3): 1849-1904 (August 2024). DOI: 10.1214/23-AIHP1386

Abstract

In this article we study a simple random walk on a decorated Galton–Watson tree, obtained from a Galton–Watson tree by replacing each vertex of degree n with an independent copy of a graph Gn and gluing the inserted graphs along the tree structure. We assume that there exist constants d,R1, v< such that the diameter, effective resistance across and volume of Gn respectively grow like n1d, n1R, nv as n. We also assume that the underlying Galton–Watson tree is critical with offspring tails ξ(x) decaying like cxα1 as x for some constant c and some α(1,2). We establish the fractal dimension, spectral dimension, walk dimension and simple random walk displacement exponent for the resulting metric space as functions of α, d, R and v, along with bounds on the fluctuations of these quantities.

Dans cet article, nous étudions une marche aléatoire simple sur un arbre de Galton–Watson décoré, obtenu à partir d’un arbre de Galton–Watson en remplaçant chaque sommet de degré n par une copie indépendante d’un graphe Gn et en collant les graphes insérés le long de la structure de l’arbre. Nous supposons qu’il existe des constantes d,R1, v< telles que le diamètre, la résistance effective et le volume de Gn croissent respectivement comme n1d, n1R, nv lorsque n. Nous supposons également que l’arbre de Galton–Watson sous-jacent est critique avec des queues de la loi de reproduction ξ(x) qui décroit comme cxα1 lorsque x, pour une certaine constante c et α(1,2). Nous établissons la dimension fractale, la dimension spectrale, la dimension de la marche et l’exposant de déplacement de la marche aléatoire simple pour l’espace métrique obtenu en fonction de α, d, R et v, ainsi que des bornes sur les fluctuations de ces quantités.

Funding Statement

The author was supported by a JSPS short term predoctoral fellowship, EPSRC grant number EP/N509796/1, and ERC consolidator grant 101001124 UniversalMap.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank David Croydon for helpful discussions and Takashi Kumagai for hosting me at RIMS in 2019, during which time this work was initiated. I would also like to thank Delphin Sénizergues for interesting conversations about a concurrent project and for his comments on the proof of Proposition 3.5, and Nicolas Curien for putting us in touch and for helpful questions. I would also like to thank the anonymous referee for a very thorough reading and detailed comments which greatly improved the presentation of the paper.

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Eleanor Archer. "Random walks on decorated Galton–Watson trees." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 60 (3) 1849 - 1904, August 2024. https://doi.org/10.1214/23-AIHP1386

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Received: 1 August 2022; Revised: 24 February 2023; Accepted: 16 March 2023; Published: August 2024
First available in Project Euclid: 31 July 2024

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/23-AIHP1386

Subjects:
Primary: 60K37
Secondary: 60J10 , 60J35 , 60J80

Keywords: Galton–Watson tree , Simple random walk , Spectral dimension

Rights: Copyright © 2024 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

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