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We consider a biased random walk $X_n$ on a Galton-Watson tree with leaves in the sub-ballistic regime. We prove that there exists an explicit constant $gamma= gamma(beta) in (0,1)$, depending on the bias $beta$, such that $X_n$ is of order $n^{gamma}$. Denoting $Delta_n$ the hitting time of level $n$, we prove that $Delta_n/n^{1/gamma}$ is tight. Moreover we show that $Delta_n/n^{1/gamma}$ does not converge in law (at least for large values of $beta$). We prove that along the sequences $n_{lambda}(k)=lfloor lambda beta^{gamma k}rfloor$, $Delta_n/n^{1/gamma}$ converges to certain infinitely divisible laws. Key tools for the proof are the classical Harris decomposition for Galton-Watson trees, a new variant of regeneration times and the careful analysis of triangular arrays of i.i.d. heavy-tailed random variables.
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In [1] a detailed analysis was given of the large-time asymptotics of the total mass of the solution to the parabolic Anderson model on a supercritical Galton-Watson random tree with an i.i.d. random potential whose marginal distribution is double-exponential. Under the assumption that the degree distribution has bounded support, two terms in the asymptotic expansion were identified under the quenched law, i.e., conditional on the realisation of the random tree and the random potential. The second term contains a variational formula indicating that the solution concentrates on a subtree with minimal degree according to a computable profile. The present paper extends the analysis to degree distributions with unbounded support. We identify the weakest condition on the tail of the degree distribution under which the arguments in [1] can be pushed through. To do so we need to control the occurrence of large degrees uniformly in large subtrees of the Galton-Watson tree.
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