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 there exists a slowly varying tail such that quenched localisation occurs on exactly 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