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Quenched localisation in the Bouchaud trap model with slowly varying traps

Probability 2017-08-28 v2

Abstract

We consider the quenched localisation of the Bouchaud trap model on the positive integers in the case that the trap distribution has a slowly varying tail at infinity. Our main result is that for each N{2,3,}N \in \{2, 3, \ldots\} there exists a slowly varying tail such that quenched localisation occurs on exactly NN sites. As far as we are aware, this is the first example of a model in which the exact number of localisation sites are able to be `tuned' according to the model parameters. Key intuition for this result is provided by an observation about the sum-max ratio for sequences of independent and identically distributed random variables with a slowly varying distributional tail, which is of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.1510.06191,
  title  = {Quenched localisation in the Bouchaud trap model with slowly varying traps},
  author = {David Croydon and Stephen Muirhead},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06191},
  year   = {2017}
}

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36 pages, 4 figures