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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 Rd,d1{\mathbb R}^d, d \geq 1. This polymer is a solution of a stochastic heat equation driven by additive spacetime white noise on [0,T]×[0,J][0,T] \times [0,J], in an environment of Poisson traps. For fixed JJ, the annealed survivial probability decays exponentially with rate proportional to Td/(d+2)T^{d/(d+2)}. In this work we examine the large JJ asymptotics of the annealed survival probability for any fixed time T>0T>0. 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 Jd/(d+2)J^{d/(d+2)}. The exponents also depend on time T>0T >0.

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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}
}