Standard Spectral Dimension for the Polynomial Lower Tail Random Conductances model

Abstract

We study models of continuous-time, symmetric, ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$-valued random walks in random environments, driven by a field of i.i.d. random nearest-neighbor conductances ${\omega }_{xy}\in [0,1]$ with a power law with an exponent $\gamma$ near 0. We are interested in estimating the quenched decay of the return probability $P_{\omega }^t(0,0)$, as $t$ tends to $+\infty$. We show that for $\gamma >\frac{d}{2}$, the standard bound turns out to be of the correct logarithmic order. As an expected concequence, the same result holds for the discrete-time case.

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