Law of large numbers for non-elliptic random walks in dynamic random environments

Abstract

We prove a law of large numbers for a class of Zd-valued random walks in dynamic random environments, including non-elliptic examples. We assume for the random environment a mixing property called conditional cone-mixing and that the random walk tends to stay inside wide enough space–time cones. The proof is based on a generalization of a regeneration scheme developed by Comets and Zeitouni (2004) [5] for static random environments and adapted by Avena et al. (2011) [2] to dynamic random environments. A number of one-dimensional examples are given. In some cases, the sign of the speed can be determined.