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On the recurrence of some random walks in random environment

This work is motivated by the study of some two-dimensional random walks in random environment (RWRE) with transition probabilities independent of one coordinate of the walk. These are non-reversible models and can not be treated by electrical network techniques. The proof of the recurrence of such RWRE needs new estimates for quenched return probabilities of a one-dimensional recurrent RWRE. We obtained these estimates by constructing suitable valleys for the potential. They imply that k independent walkers in the same one-dimensional (recurrent) environment will meet in the origin infinitely often, for any k. We also consider direct products of one-dimensional recurrent RWRE with another RWRE or with a RW. We point out the that models involving one-dimensional recurrent RWRE are more recurrent than the corresponding models involving simple symmetric walk.