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Coupling Brownian loop soups and random walk loop soups at all polynomial scales

Probability 2026-01-21 v2

Abstract

Lawler and Trujillo Ferreras constructed a well-known coupling between the Brownian loop soups in R2\mathbb{R}^2 and the random walk loop soups on Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 (one rescales the random walk loops by 1/N1/N, their time parametrizations by 1/(2N2)1/(2N^2), and let NN\to \infty), which led to numerous applications. It nevertheless only holds for loops with time length at least Nθ2N^{\theta-2} for θ(2/3,2)\theta \in(2/3,2). In particular, there is no control on mesoscopic loops with time length less than N4/3N^{-4/3} (i.e. roughly diameter less than N2/3N^{-2/3}). This coupling was subsequently extended by Sapozhnikov and Shiraishi to Zd\mathbb{Z}^d with d3d\ge 3, for loops with time length at least Nθ2N^{\theta-2}, for θ(2d/(d+4),2)\theta \in(2d/(d+4),2). In this paper, we find a simple way to remove the restriction θ>2d/(d+4)\theta>2d/(d+4), so that such a coupling works for all θ(0,2)\theta\in (0,2), i.e. for loops at all polynomial scales. We establish couplings for both discrete-time and continuous-time random walk loop soups on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d, for d1d\ge 1.

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@article{arxiv.2601.02992,
  title  = {Coupling Brownian loop soups and random walk loop soups at all polynomial scales},
  author = {Wei Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02992},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, updated references

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