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Uniqueness of the limiting martingale problem for the cycle-valued random walk

Establish uniqueness of the solution to the martingale problem for the limiting generator \mathfrak{A} (defined in Equation (def:mathfrakA)), which characterizes the diffusive limit of the rescaled cycle-valued random walk on triangulations of the flat torus viewed in the space of currents. Proving uniqueness would ensure full convergence of the sequence of rescaled random walks to a single diffusion solving the martingale problem associated with \mathfrak{A}.

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Background

The paper introduces a continuous-time chain-valued random walk on simplicial complexes and studies its diffusive scaling limits on regular triangulations of the flat torus. The authors construct the limiting generator \mathfrak{A}, involving the Rham–Hodge operator, and show tightness; they further identify that all limiting values solve the same martingale problem.

However, they do not establish uniqueness of the solution for this martingale problem. Uniqueness is a key step to conclude convergence of the entire sequence of rescaled random walks to a single limit. The generator \mathfrak{A} is explicitly defined in Equation (def:mathfrakA), and its associated martingale problem governs the limit process in the space of currents.

References

we identify all the limiting values as solutions of the same martingale problem, but uniqueness of the solution is still left open.

Random walks on simplicial complexes (2404.08803 - Bonis et al., 12 Apr 2024) in Introduction, end of Section 1 (also noted in Abstract)