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2001 A Note on Limiting Behaviour of Disastrous Environment Exponents
Thomas Mountford
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Electron. J. Probab. 6: 1-10 (2001). DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v6-74

Abstract

We consider a random walk on the $d$-dimensional lattice and investigate the asymptotic probability of the walk avoiding a "disaster" (points put down according to a regular Poisson process on space-time). We show that, given the Poisson process points, almost surely, the chance of surviving to time $t$ is like $e^{-\alpha \log (\frac1k) t } $, as $t$ tends to infinity if $k$, the jump rate of the random walk, is small.

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Thomas Mountford. "A Note on Limiting Behaviour of Disastrous Environment Exponents." Electron. J. Probab. 6 1 - 10, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1214/EJP.v6-74

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Accepted: 5 January 2001; Published: 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 19 April 2016

zbMATH: 0976.60093
MathSciNet: MR1814217
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/EJP.v6-74

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Primary: 60K35

Keywords: disaster point , Poisson process , Random walk

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