Local times in critical generations of a random walk in random environment on trees

Abstract

We consider a null-recurrent randomly biased walk $\mathbb{X}$ on a Galton-Watson tree in the (sub)-diffusive regime and we prove that properly renormalized, the local time in a critical generation converges in law towards some function of a stable continuous-state branching process. We also provide an explicit equivalent of the probability that critical generations are reached by the random walk $\mathbb{X}$.

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