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Collisions of random walks

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Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat., 48 (4): 922--946 (2012)
DOI: 10.1214/12-AIHP481

Abstract

A recurrent graph G has the infinite collision property if two independent random walks on G, started at the same point, collide infinitely often a.s. We give a simple criterion in terms of Green functions for a graph to have this property, and use it to prove that a critical Galton–Watson tree with finite variance conditioned to survive, the incipient infinite cluster in Zd with d ≥ 19 and the uniform spanning tree in Z2 all have the infinite collision property. For power-law combs and spherically symmetric trees, we determine precisely the phase boundary for the infinite collision property.

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