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RANDOMENTROPYANDRECURRENCE KARMA DAJANI andRONALD MEESTER Received 19December 2002 We show that a cocycle, which is nothing but a generalized random walk with indexsetZd,withbounded stepsizesisrecurrent whenever itsassociated random entropy iszero,andtransient whenever itsassociated random entropy ispositive. This generalizes a well-known one-dimensional result and implies a Polya type dichotomy forthis situation. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classi?cation: 37A50, 28D20. 1. Motivationandintroduction. In[1],theconceptofrandomentropyasso- ciatedwithaZdrandomgroupactionwasintroducedandstu