Survival of a long random string among hard Poisson traps
Probability
2026-03-16 v2
Abstract
In [AJM26], we gave large-time asymptotic bounds on the annealed survival probability of a moving polymer taking values in . This polymer is a solution of a stochastic heat equation driven by additive spacetime white noise on , in an environment of Poisson traps. For fixed , the annealed survivial probability decays exponentially with rate proportional to . In this work we examine the large asymptotics of the annealed survival probability for any fixed time . We prove upper and lower bounds for the annealed survival probability in the cases of hard obstacles. Our bounds decay exponentially with rate proportional to . The exponents also depend on time .
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@article{arxiv.2603.10320,
title = {Survival of a long random string among hard Poisson traps},
author = {Siva Athreya and Mathew Joseph and Carl Mueller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10320},
year = {2026}
}