UNSOLVED PROBLEMS CONCERNING RANDOM WALKS ON TREES

We state some unsolved problems and describe relevant examples concerning random walks on trees. Most of the problems involve the behavior of random walks with drift: e.g., is the speed on Galton-Watson trees monotonic in the drift parameter? These random walks have been used in Monte-Carlo algorithms for sampling from the vertices of a tree; in general, their behavior reflects the size and regularity of the underlying tree. Random walks are related to conductance. The distribution function for the conductance of Galton-Watson trees satisfies an interesting functional equation; is this distribution function absolutely continuous?

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