Speed of the random walk on the supercritical Gaussian Free Field percolation on regular trees

Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan

Published 2023-04-17Version 1

In this paper, we study the random walk on a supercritical branching process with an uncountable and unbounded set of types supported on the $d$-regular tree $\mathbb{T}_d$ ($d\geq 3$), namely the cluster $\mathcal{C}_\circ^h$ of the root in the level set of the Gaussian Free Field (GFF) above an arbitrary value $h\in (-\infty, h_{\star})$. The value $h_{\star}\in (0,\infty)$ is the percolation threshold; in particular, $\mathcal{C}_\circ^h$ is infinite with positive probability. We show that on $\mathcal{C}_\circ^h$ conditioned to be infinite, the simple random walk is ballistic, and we give a law of large numbers and a Donsker theorem for its speed. To do so, we design a renewal construction that withstands the long-range dependencies in the structure of the tree. This allows us to translate underlying ergodic properties of $\mathcal{C}_\circ^h$ into regularity estimates for the random walk.