## Electronic Journal of Probability

### Scaling limit of sub-ballistic 1D random walk among biased conductances: a story of wells and walls

#### Abstract

We consider a one-dimensional random walk among biased i.i.d. conductances, in the case where the random walk is transient but sub-ballistic: this occurs when the conductances have a heavy-tail at $+\infty$ or at $0$. We prove that the scaling limit of the process is the inverse of an $\alpha$-stable subordinator, which indicates an aging phenomenon, expressed in terms of the generalized arcsine law. In analogy with the case of an i.i.d. random environment studied in details in [ESZ09a, ESTZ13], some “traps” are responsible for the slowdown of the random walk. However, the phenomenology is somehow different (and richer) here. In particular, three types of traps may occur, depending on the fine properties of the tails of the conductances: (i) a very large conductance (a well in the potential); (ii) a very small conductance (a wall in the potential); (iii) the combination of a large conductance followed shortly after by a small conductance (a well-and-wall in the potential).

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 25 (2020), paper no. 30, 43 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 31 January 2020
First available in Project Euclid: 24 February 2020

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1582534895

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/20-EJP427

#### Citation

Berger, Quentin; Salvi, Michele. Scaling limit of sub-ballistic 1D random walk among biased conductances: a story of wells and walls. Electron. J. Probab. 25 (2020), paper no. 30, 43 pp. doi:10.1214/20-EJP427. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1582534895

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