Copolymer at selective interfaces and pinning potentials: weak coupling limits
Abstract
We consider a simple random walk of length , denoted by , and we define a sequence of centered i.i.d. random variables. For we define an i.i.d sequence of random vectors. We set , and , and transform the measure on the set of random walk trajectories with the Hamiltonian . This transformed path measure describes an hydrophobic(philic) copolymer interacting with a layer of width around an interface between oil and water. In the present article we prove the convergence in the limit of weak coupling (when , and 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