Directional zero–one laws beyond iid environments and iid ballisticity

What OpenAI claims

On ℤd, d ≥ 3, directional escape has probability zero or one for iid strictly elliptic nearest-neighbor environments, and for stationary ergodic finite-range-dependent environments under uniform ellipticity. In iid uniformly elliptic environments with d ≥ 2, almost-sure directional transience implies a deterministic limiting velocity with positive projection in that direction, resolving the ballisticity conjecture. (Lean)

Papers (3)

1. A directional zero–one law for finite-range-dependent random environments

   5 October 2026 · Preprint, not peer reviewed · PDF

   We prove a directional zero–one law for uniformly elliptic nearest-neighbor random walks in stationary, ergodic, finite-range-dependent environments on ℤd, d ≥ 3. For every fixed nonzero real direction, the probability of escape in that direction, averaged over the environment, is either zero or one. Finite-range dependence is imposed on the full transition rows: collections of rows at distance greater than a fixed range are independent, including collections indexed by infinite deterministic sets.

2. A directional zero–one law under strict ellipticity

   23 September 2026 · Preprint, not peer reviewed · PDF

   We prove the directional zero–one conjecture for nearest-neighbor random walks in independent and identically distributed strictly elliptic environments on ℤd, d ≥ 3: the probability of escape in each fixed nonzero real direction is zero or one. Only strict positivity of the transition probabilities is required; no uniform lower bound or moment assumption is imposed.

3. Directional transience implies ballisticity

   23 September 2026 · Preprint, not peer reviewed · PDF

   We prove that almost-sure transience in a fixed direction implies a deterministic limiting velocity with positive projection in that direction for nearest-neighbor random walks in independent and identically distributed uniformly elliptic environments on ℤd, d ≥ 2. This resolves the ballisticity conjecture positively.

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