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Anderson polymer in a fractional Brownian environment: asymptotic behavior of the partition function

Probability 2017-09-05 v2

Abstract

We consider the Anderson polymer partition function u(t):=EX[e0tdBsX(s)], u(t):=\mathbb{E}^X\Bigl[e^{\int_0^t \mathrm{d}B^{X(s)}_s}\Bigr]\,, where {Btx;t0}xZd\{B^{x}_t\,;\, t\geq0\}_{x\in\mathbb{Z}^d} is a family of independent fractional Brownian motions all with Hurst parameter H(0,1)H\in(0,1), and {X(t)}tR0\{X(t)\}_{t\in \mathbb{R}^{\geq 0}} is a continuous-time simple symmetric random walk on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d with jump rate κ\kappa and started from the origin. EX\mathbb{E}^X is the expectation with respect to this random walk. We prove that when H1/2H\leq 1/2, the function u(t)u(t) almost surely grows asymptotically like elte^{l t}, where l>0l>0 is a deterministic number. More precisely, we show that as tt approaches ++\infty, the expression {1tlogu(t)}tR>0\{\frac{1}{t}\log u(t)\}_{t\in \mathbb{R}^{>0}} converges both almost surely and in the L1\mathcal{L}^1 sense to some deterministic number l>0l>0. For H>1/2H>1/2, we first show that limt1tlogu(t)\lim_{t\rightarrow \infty} \frac{1}{t}\log u(t) exists both almost surely and in the L1\mathcal{L}^1 sense, and equals a strictly positive deterministic number (possibly ++\infty); hence almost surely u(t)u(t) grows asymptotically at least like eate^{a t} for some deterministic constant a>0a>0. On the other hand, we also show that almost surely and in the L1\mathcal{L}^1 sense, lim supt1tlogtlogu(t)\limsup_{t\rightarrow \infty} \frac{1}{t\sqrt{\log t}}\log u(t) is a deterministic finite real number (possibly zero), hence proving that almost surely u(t)u(t) grows asymptotically at most like ebtlogte^{b t\sqrt{\log t}} for some deterministic positive constant bb. Finally, for H>1/2H>1/2 when Zd\mathbb{Z}^d is replaced by a circle endowed with a H\"older continuous covariance function, we show that lim supt1tlogu(t)\limsup_{t\rightarrow \infty} \frac{1}{t}\log u(t) is a finite deterministic positive number, hence proving that almost surely u(t)u(t) grows asymptotically at most like ecte^{c t} for some deterministic positive constant cc.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05491,
  title  = {Anderson polymer in a fractional Brownian environment: asymptotic behavior of the partition function},
  author = {Kamran Kalbasi and Thomas S. Mountford and Frederi G. Viens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05491},
  year   = {2017}
}