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We obtain sharp upper and lower bounds for the downward moderate deviations of the volume of the range of a random walk in dimension five and larger. Our results encompass two regimes: a Gaussian regime for small deviations, and a stretched exponential regime for larger deviations. In the latter regime, we show that conditioned on the moderate deviations event, the walk folds a small part of its range in a ball-like subset. Also, we provide new path properties, in dimension three as well. Besides the key role Newtonian capacity plays in this study, we introduce two original ideas, of general interest, which strengthen the approach developed in Asselah and Schapira (Sci Éc Norm Supér 50(4):755–786, 2017).
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We thank Niccolo Torri for valuable help at an early stage of this project. We acknowledge the support of the Projects SWiWS (ANR-17-CE40-0032) and MALIN (ANR-16-CE93-0003).
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Asselah, A., Schapira, B. The two regimes of moderate deviations for the range of a transient walk. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 180, 439–465 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-021-01063-3
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