## Electronic Communications in Probability

### From the Lifshitz tail to the quenched survival asymptotics in the trapping problem

Ryoki Fukushima

#### Abstract

The survival problem for a diffusing particle moving among random traps is considered. We introduce a simple argument to derive the quenched asymptotics of the survival probability from the Lifshitz tail effect for the associated operator. In particular, the upper bound is proved in fairly general settings and is shown to be sharp in the case of the Brownian motion among Poissonian obstacles. As an application, we derive the quenched asymptotics for the Brownian motion among traps distributed according to a random perturbation of the lattice.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 14 (2009), paper no. 42, 435-446.

Dates
Accepted: 6 October 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 6 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465234751

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/ECP.v14-1497

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2551853

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1191.60122

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#### Citation

Fukushima, Ryoki. From the Lifshitz tail to the quenched survival asymptotics in the trapping problem. Electron. Commun. Probab. 14 (2009), paper no. 42, 435--446. doi:10.1214/ECP.v14-1497. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465234751

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