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Strong disorder in semidirected random polymers

Probability 2010-11-17 v2

Abstract

We consider a random walk in a random potential, which models a situation of a random polymer and we study the annealed and quenched costs to perform long crossings from a point to a hyperplane. These costs are measured by the so called Lyapounov norms. We identify situations where the point-to-hyperplane annealed and quenched Lyapounov norms are different. We also prove that in these cases the polymer path exhibits localization.

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@article{arxiv.1009.2693,
  title  = {Strong disorder in semidirected random polymers},
  author = {Nikos Zygouras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2693},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

32 pages; some notation changed and some mistakes corrected; section 2 expanded

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