Range and speed of rotor walks on trees

Abstract

We prove a law of large numbers for the range of rotor walks with random initial configuration on regular trees and on Galton-Watson trees. More precisely, we show that on the classes of trees under consideration, even in the case when the rotor walk is recurrent, the range grows at linear speed. We also show the existence of the speed for such rotor walks.

Final version; accepted in Journal of Theoretical Probability 2019