Trapping and saturation in a random media
We consider a model of diffusion in a random media originated from the nuclear waste management industry. In each site of the cubic lattice Zd there is an obstacle with a positive integer valued random capacity. On the other hand, on the origin and independently of the distribution of the obstacles, independent random walks are introduced so that at time t, N(t) random walks have been born, and so that they survive until touching an obstacle. When this happens the capacity of the touched obstacle decreases by one. An obstacle of 0 capacity disappears. For low values of N(t) we prove that with probability 1, the saturated obstacles correspond to a sphere of volume N(t). With the help of this fact, and using the second version of the method of enlargement of obstacles of Sznitman, we prove that there are three injection regimes, depending on N(t) and the dimension. In particular estimates on the asymptotic behaviour of the principal Dirichlet eigenvalue of the discrete Laplacian operator on a box of side t with sites removed with positive probability, each one independent of the others, is required. This is a joint work with Gerard Ben Arous.