Once-Reinforced and Self-Interacting Random Walks beyond exchangeability

Abstract

We present the first rigorous quantitative analysis of once-reinforced random walks (ORRW) on general graphs, based on a novel change of measure formula.~This enables us to prove large deviations estimates for the range of the walk to have cardinality of the order $N^{d/(d+2)}$ in dimension larger than or equal than two. We also prove that ORRW is transient on all non-amenable graphs for small reinforcement.~Moreover, we study the shape of oriented ORRW on euclidean lattices. We also provide a new approach to the study of general self-interacting random walk, which we apply to random walk in random environment, reinforced processes on oriented graphs, including the directed ORRW.