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A Lower Bound on the Disconnection Time of a Discrete Cylinder

Probability 2008-07-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior for large N of the disconnection time T_N of simple random walk on a discrete cylinder with base a d-dimensional discrete torus of side-length N. When d is sufficiently large, we are able to substantially improve the lower bounds obtained by the authors in a previous article when d is bigger or equal to 2. We show here that the laws of N^(2d)/T_N are tight.

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@article{arxiv.math/0701414,
  title  = {A Lower Bound on the Disconnection Time of a Discrete Cylinder},
  author = {Amir Dembo and Alain-Sol Sznitman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0701414},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

17 pages, this article appears in the volume In and Out of Equilibrium 2, V. Sidoravicius and M. E. Vares Editors