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On recurrent and transient sets of inhomogeneous symmetric random walks. (English) Zbl 0976.60073

Summary: We consider a continuous time random walk on the \(d\)-dimensional lattice \(\mathbf Z^d\). The jump rates are time dependent, but symmetric and strongly elliptic with ellipticity constants independent of time. We investigate the implications of heat kernel estimates on recurrence-transience properties of the walk and we give conditions for recurrence as well as for transience. We give applications of these conditions and discuss them in relation with the (optimal) Wiener test available in the time independent context. Our approach relies on estimates on the time spent by the walk in a set and on a 0-1 law. We show also that, still via heat kernel estimates, one can avoid using a 0-1 law, achieving this way quantitative estimates on more general hitting probabilities.

MSC:

60J25 Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces
60J75 Jump processes (MSC2010)
82B41 Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics
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