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Differentiability of the Shape Function for Directed Polymers in Continuous Space

Probability 2023-06-22 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

For directed polymers, the shape function computes the limiting average energy accrued by paths with a given average slope. We prove that, for a large family of directed polymer models in discrete time and continuous space in dimension 1+11+1, for positive and zero temperature, the shape function is differentiable with respect to the slope on the entire real line.

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@article{arxiv.2303.04224,
  title  = {Differentiability of the Shape Function for Directed Polymers in Continuous Space},
  author = {Yuri Bakhtin and Douglas Dow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.04224},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Minor changes in this version, corrected a few misprints. 28 pages

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