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arxiv: 1611.04497 · v1 · pith:UVBRGKYZnew · submitted 2016-11-14 · 🧮 math.PR

Favorite sites of randomly biased walks on a supercritical Galton-Watson tree

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Erd\H{o}s and R\'ev\'esz initiated the study of favorite sites by considering the one-dimensional simple random walk. We investigate in this paper the same problem for a class of null-recurrent randomly biased walks on a supercritical Gaton-Watson tree. We prove that there is some parameter $\kappa \in (1, \infty]$ such that the set of the favorite sites of the biased walk is almost surely bounded in the case $\kappa \in (2, \infty]$, tight in the case $\kappa=2$, and oscillates between a neighborhood of the root and the boundary of the range in the case $\kappa \in (1, 2)$. Moreover, our results yield a complete answer to the cardinality of the set of favorite sites in the case $\kappa \in (2, \infty]$. The proof relies on the exploration of the Markov property of the local times process with respect to the space variable and on a precise tail estimate on the maximum of local times, using a change of measure for multi-type Galton-Watson trees.

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