The problem of the most visited site in random environment

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 273-302

  Hu, Yueyun ^a   Shi, Zhan ^b  

^a University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Diffusion with random potential; Favourite site; Local time; Rate of escape; Sinai's random walk in random environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034419370     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008730     Document Type: Article

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