Quenched free energy and large deviations for random walks in random potentials

F Rassoul‐Agha, T Seppäläinen… - … on Pure and Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We study quenched distributions on random walks in a random potential on integer lattices
of arbitrary dimension and with an arbitrary finite set of admissible steps. The potential can …

Variational formulas and cocycle solutions for directed polymer and percolation models

N Georgiou, F Rassoul-Agha… - … in Mathematical Physics, 2016 - Springer
We discuss variational formulas for the law of large numbers limits of certain models of
motion in a random medium: namely, the limiting time constant for last-passage percolation …

Quenched point-to-point free energy for random walks in random potentials

F Rassoul-Agha, T Seppäläinen - Probability Theory and Related Fields, 2014 - Springer
We consider a random walk in a random potential on a square lattice of arbitrary dimension.
The potential is a function of an ergodic environment and steps of the walk. The potential is …

Selected topics in random walks in random environment

A Drewitz, AF Ramírez - Topics in percolative and disordered systems, 2014 - Springer
Random walk in random environment (RWRE) is a fundamental model of statistical
mechanics, describing the movement of a particle in a highly disordered and …

Variational formulas and disorder regimes of random walks in random potentials

F Rassoul-Agha, T Seppäläinen, A Yilmaz - Bernoulli, 2017 - JSTOR
We give two variational formulas (qVar1) and (qVar2) for the quenched free energy of a
random walk in random potential (RWRP) when (i) the underlying walk is directed or …

Quenched and averaged large deviations for random walks in random environments: The impact of disorder

R Bazaes, C Mukherjee, AF Ramírez… - The Annals of Applied …, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
In 2003, Varadhan (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 56 (2003) 1222–1245) developed a robust
method for proving quenched and averaged large deviations for random walks in a …

Differing averaged and quenched large deviations for random walks in random environments in dimensions two and three

A Yilmaz, O Zeitouni - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2010 - Springer
We consider the quenched and the averaged (or annealed) large deviation rate functions I q
and I a for space-time and (the usual) space-only RWRE on Z^ d. By Jensen's inequality, I …

Random walks in random Dirichlet environment are transient in dimension d ≥ 3

C Sabot - Probability theory and related fields, 2011 - Springer
We consider random walks in random Dirichlet environment (RWDE) which is a special type
of random walks in random environment where the exit probabilities at each site are iid …

Large deviations of quenched and annealed random walk in mixing random environment

J Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06581, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we establish the existence of large deviation principles of random walk in
strongly mixing environments. The quenched and annealed rate functions have the same …

Existence of generalized Busemann functions and Gibbs measures for random walks in random potentials

S Groathouse, C Janjigian, F Rassoul-Agha - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We establish the existence of generalized Busemann functions and Gibbs-Dobrushin-
Landford-Ruelle measures for a general class of lattice random walks in random potential …