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The directional zero-one law for random walks in iid random environments in dimension at least three

Theorem 1.1: for d≥3d\ge3, iid nearest-neighbour rows that are almost surely strictly positive (no uniform lower bound, no moment condition) and any fixed real ℓ≠0\ell\ne0, P0(Aℓ)∈{0,1}P_0(A_\ell)\in\{0,1\}. The October companion extends the law to stationary ergodic finite-range-dependent environments under uniform ellipticity, and the family's ballisticity paper gives, for uniformly elliptic iid environments in d≥3d\ge3, the hemisphere description of the transient directions. Not shown: ballisticity or a velocity under strict ellipticity alone, jumps beyond nearest neighbours, or general mixing environments (where the law fails by Bramson-Zeitouni-Zerner).

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The directional zero-one law for random walks in iid random environments in dimension at least three

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Theorem 1.1: for d≥3d\ge3, iid nearest-neighbour rows that are almost surely strictly positive (no uniform lower bound, no moment condition) and any fixed real ℓ≠0\ell\ne0, P0(Aℓ)∈{0,1}P_0(A_\ell)\in\{0,1\}. The October companion extends the law to stationary ergodic finite-range-dependent environments under uniform ellipticity, and the family's ballisticity paper gives, for uniformly elliptic iid environments in d≥3d\ge3, the h…

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Theorem 1.1: for d≥3d\ge3, iid nearest-neighbour rows that are almost surely strictly positive (no uniform lower bound, no moment condition) and any fixed real ℓ≠0\ell\ne0, P0(Aℓ)∈{0,1}P_0(A_\ell)\in\{0,1\}. The October companion extends the law to stationary ergodic finite-range-dependent environments under uniform ellipticity, and the family's ballisticity paper gives, for uniformly elliptic iid environments in d≥3d\ge3, the hemisphere description of the transient directions. Not shown: ballisticity or a velocity under strict ellipticity alone, jumps beyond nearest neighbours, or general mixing environments (where the law fails by Bramson-Zeitouni-Zerner).

Theorem 1.1: for d≥3d\ge3, iid nearest-neighbour rows that are almost surely strictly positive (no uniform lower bound, no moment condition) and any fixed real ℓ≠0\ell\ne0, P0(Aℓ)∈{0,1}P_0(A_\ell)\in\{0,1\}. The October companion extends the law to stationary ergodic finite-range-dependent environments under uniform ellipticity, and the family's ballisticity paper gives, for uniformly elliptic iid environments in d≥3d\ge3, the hemisphere description of the transient directions. Not shown: ballisticity or a velocity under strict ellipticity alone, jumps beyond nearest neighbours, or general mixing environments (where the law fails by Bramson-Zeitouni-Zerner).

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The directional zero-one law for random walks in iid random environments in dimension at least three — Mathematical Frontier Network