How thin does random interlacement have to be so that a random walk can see through it?

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Main Author: Bouchot, Nicolas
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contents The random interlacements $\mathscr{I}(u)$ at level $u$ has been introduced by Sznitman, as a Poissonian collection of independent simple random walk trajectories on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 3$, with intensity $u>0$. Since then, several works investigated the properties of the random interlacements intersected with large sets of~$\mathbb{Z}^d$. In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the capacity of $\mathscr{I}(u) \cap D_N$, where $D_N$ is the blow up of a compact set $D$, with typical size $N$. We determine the correct window $(u_N)_{N\geq 1}$ of the intensity parameter for which the capacity $\mathrm{cap}(\mathscr{I}(u_N)\cap D_N)$ starts to become negligible compared to $\mathrm{cap}(D_N)$; this roughly means that a random walk starting from far away starts to see through $\mathscr{I}(u_N)\cap D_N$. In the same spirit, we investigate the capacity of the simple random walk conditioned to stay in a large Euclidean ball up to time $t_N$, and find similar asymptotics by taking $t_N = u_N N^d$.
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spellingShingle How thin does random interlacement have to be so that a random walk can see through it?
Bouchot, Nicolas
Probability
60G50, 60K35
The random interlacements $\mathscr{I}(u)$ at level $u$ has been introduced by Sznitman, as a Poissonian collection of independent simple random walk trajectories on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 3$, with intensity $u>0$. Since then, several works investigated the properties of the random interlacements intersected with large sets of~$\mathbb{Z}^d$. In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the capacity of $\mathscr{I}(u) \cap D_N$, where $D_N$ is the blow up of a compact set $D$, with typical size $N$. We determine the correct window $(u_N)_{N\geq 1}$ of the intensity parameter for which the capacity $\mathrm{cap}(\mathscr{I}(u_N)\cap D_N)$ starts to become negligible compared to $\mathrm{cap}(D_N)$; this roughly means that a random walk starting from far away starts to see through $\mathscr{I}(u_N)\cap D_N$. In the same spirit, we investigate the capacity of the simple random walk conditioned to stay in a large Euclidean ball up to time $t_N$, and find similar asymptotics by taking $t_N = u_N N^d$.
title How thin does random interlacement have to be so that a random walk can see through it?
topic Probability
60G50, 60K35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15260