## A law of large numbers for random walks in random mixing environments.(English)Zbl 1078.60089

Summary: We prove a law of large numbers for a class of ballistic, multidimensional random walks in random environments where the environment satisfies appropriate mixing conditions, which hold when the environment is a weak mixing field in the sense of Dobrushin and Shlosman. Our result holds if the mixing rate balances moments of some random times depending on the path. It applies in the nonnestling case, but we also provide examples of nestling walks that satisfy our assumptions. The derivation is based on an adaptation, using coupling, of the regeneration argument of Sznitman and Zerner.

### MSC:

 60K37 Processes in random environments 60F15 Strong limit theorems 82B41 Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics 82B44 Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics
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