Anderson polymer in a fractional Brownian environment: asymptotic behavior of the partition function
Abstract
We consider the Anderson polymer partition function where is a family of independent fractional Brownian motions all with Hurst parameter , and is a continuous-time simple symmetric random walk on with jump rate and started from the origin. is the expectation with respect to this random walk. We prove that when , the function almost surely grows asymptotically like , where is a deterministic number. More precisely, we show that as approaches , the expression converges both almost surely and in the sense to some deterministic number . For , we first show that exists both almost surely and in the sense, and equals a strictly positive deterministic number (possibly ); hence almost surely grows asymptotically at least like for some deterministic constant . On the other hand, we also show that almost surely and in the sense, is a deterministic finite real number (possibly zero), hence proving that almost surely grows asymptotically at most like for some deterministic positive constant . Finally, for when is replaced by a circle endowed with a H\"older continuous covariance function, we show that is a finite deterministic positive number, hence proving that almost surely grows asymptotically at most like for some deterministic positive constant .
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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}
}