Electronic Journal of Probability

A Note on Limiting Behaviour of Disastrous Environment Exponents

Thomas Mountford

Abstract

We consider a random walk on the $d$-dimensional lattice and investigate the asymptotic probability of the walk avoiding a "disaster" (points put down according to a regular Poisson process on space-time). We show that, given the Poisson process points, almost surely, the chance of surviving to time $t$ is like $e^{-\alpha \log (\frac1k) t }$, as $t$ tends to infinity if $k$, the jump rate of the random walk, is small.

Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 6 (2001), paper no. 1, 10 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 5 January 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 19 April 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1461097631

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v6-74

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1814217

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0976.60093

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Citation

Mountford, Thomas. A Note on Limiting Behaviour of Disastrous Environment Exponents. Electron. J. Probab. 6 (2001), paper no. 1, 10 pp. doi:10.1214/EJP.v6-74. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1461097631

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