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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003264329707536

Autore

Kumagai, Takashi

Titolo

Random walks on disordered media and their scaling limits [e-book] : École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XL - 2010 / Takashi Kumagai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham [Switzerland]  : Springer, c2014

ISBN

9783319031521

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 147 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1617-9692 ; 2101

Classificazione

AMS 60G50

AMS 05C81

AMS 31C20

AMS 35K08

LC QA274.73

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Random walks

Potential theory (Mathematics)

Distribution (Probability theory)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and index

Nota di contenuto

Introduction ; Weighted graphs and the associated Markov chains ; Heat kernel estimates  general theory ; Heat kernel estimates using effective resistance ; Heat kernel estimates for random weighted graphs ; Alexander-Orbach conjecture holds when two-point functions behave nicely ; Further results for random walk on IIC ; Random conductance model

Sommario/riassunto

In these lecture notes, we will analyze the behavior of random walk on disordered mediaby means ofboth probabilistic and analytic methods, and will study the scalinglimits. We will focus on the discrete potential theory and how the theory is effectively used in the analysis of disordered media.Thefirst few chapters of the notes can be used as an introduction to discrete potential theory. Recently, there has beensignificantprogress on thetheoryof random walkon disordered media such as fractals and random media.Random walk on a percolation cluster('the ant in the labyrinth')is one of the typical examples. In 1986, H. Kesten showedtheanomalous behavior of a random walk on a percolation cluster at critical probability. Partly



motivated by this work, analysis and diffusion processes on fractals have been developed since the late eighties. As a result, various new methods have been produced to estimate heat kernels on disordered media. These developments are summarized in the notes