## Electronic Communications in Probability

### Stability and instability of Gaussian heat kernel estimates for random walks among time-dependent conductances

#### Abstract

We consider time-dependent random walks among time-dependent conductances. For discrete time random walks, we show that, unlike the time-independent case, two-sided Gaussian heat kernel estimates are not stable under perturbations. This is proved by giving an example of a ballistic and transient time-dependent random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ among uniformly elliptic time-dependent conductances. For continuous time random walks, we show the instability when the holding times are i.i.d. $\exp(1)$, and in contrast, we prove the stability when the holding times change by sites in such a way that the base measure is a uniform measure.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 21 (2016), paper no. 5, 11 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 18 December 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 3 February 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1454514625

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/15-ECP4347

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3485374

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1338.60196

#### Citation

Huang, Ruojun; Kumagai, Takashi. Stability and instability of Gaussian heat kernel estimates for random walks among time-dependent conductances. Electron. Commun. Probab. 21 (2016), paper no. 5, 11 pp. doi:10.1214/15-ECP4347. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1454514625

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