Lyapunov exponents of random walks in small random potential: the upper bound

Abstract

We consider the simple random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ evolving in a random i.i.d. potential taking values in $[0,+\infty)$. The potential is not assumed integrable, and can be rescaled by a multiplicative factor $λ> 0$. Completing the work started in a companion paper, we give the asymptotic behaviour of the Lyapunov exponents for $d \ge 3$, both annealed and quenched, as the scale parameter $λ$ tends to zero.

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