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Copolymer at selective interfaces and pinning potentials: weak coupling limits

Probability 2007-11-19 v3

Abstract

We consider a simple random walk of length NN, denoted by (Si)i{1,...,N}(S_{i})_{i\in \{1,...,N\}}, and we define (wi)i1(w_i)_{i\geq 1} a sequence of centered i.i.d. random variables. For KNK\in\N we define ((γiK,...,γiK))i1((\gamma_i^{-K},...,\gamma_i^K))_{i\geq 1} an i.i.d sequence of random vectors. We set βR\beta\in \mathbb{R}, λ0\lambda\geq 0 and h0h\geq 0, and transform the measure on the set of random walk trajectories with the Hamiltonian λi=1N(wi+h)\sign(Si)+βj=KKi=1Nγij1{Si=j}\lambda \sum_{i=1}^{N} (w_i+h) \sign(S_i)+\beta \sum_{j=-K}^{K}\sum_{i=1}^{N} \gamma_{i}^{j} \boldsymbol{1}_{\{S_{i}=j\}}. This transformed path measure describes an hydrophobic(philic) copolymer interacting with a layer of width 2K2K around an interface between oil and water. In the present article we prove the convergence in the limit of weak coupling (when λ\lambda, hh and β\beta tend to 0) of this discrete model towards its continuous counterpart. To that aim we further develop a technique of coarse graining introduced by Bolthausen and den Hollander in \cite{BDH}. Our result shows, in particular, that the randomness of the pinning around the interface vanishes as the coupling becomes weaker.

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@article{arxiv.math/0609814,
  title  = {Copolymer at selective interfaces and pinning potentials: weak coupling limits},
  author = {Nicolas Petrelis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0609814},
  year   = {2007}
}

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26 pages