Phase transition for the Once-reinforced random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$-like trees

Abstract

In this short paper, we consider the Once-reinforced random walk with reinforcement parameter $a$ on trees with bounded degree which are transient for the simple random walk. On each of these trees, we prove that there exists an explicit critical parameter $a_{0}$ such that the Once-reinforced random walk is almost surely recurrent if $a>a_{0}$ and almost surely transient if $a<a_{0}$. This provides the first examples of phase transition for the Once-reinforced random walk.