Summary
We continue our study ofd-dimensional Brownian motion in a soft repulsive Poissonian potential over a long time interval [0,t]. We prove here a pinning effect: for typical configuratons, with probability tending to 1 ast tends to ∞, the particle gets trapped close to locations of near minima of certain variational problems. These locations lie at distances growing almost linearly witht from the origin, and the particle gets pinned within distance smaller than any positive power oft of one such location. In dimension 1, we can push further our estimates and show that in a suitable sense, the particle gets trapped with high probability, within time ∈t and within distance (logt)2+∈ from a suitable location at distance of ordert/(logt)3 from the origin.
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Sznitman, AS. Brownian confinement and pinning in a Poissonian potential. II. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 105, 31–56 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01192070
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Mathematics Subject Classification (1991)
- 60K40
- 82D30