%0 Journal Article %T Quenched invariance principle for random walks in balanced random environment %A Xiaoqin Guo %A Ofer Zeitouni %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s00440-010-0320-9 %X We consider random walks in a balanced random environment in $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\geq 2$. We first prove an invariance principle (for $d\ge2$) and the transience of the random walks when $d\ge 3$ (recurrence when $d=2$) in an ergodic environment which is not uniformly elliptic but satisfies certain moment condition. Then, using percolation arguments, we show that under mere ellipticity, the above results hold for random walks in i.i.d. balanced environments. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3494v4