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The Critical Curve of the Random Pinning and Copolymer Models at Weak Coupling

Probability 2015-06-12 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study random pinning and copolymer models, when the return distribution of the underlying renewal process has a polynomial tail with finite mean. We compute the asymptotic behavior of the critical curves of the models in the weak coupling regime, showing that it is universal. This proves a conjecture of Bolthausen, den Hollander and Opoku for copolymer models (ref. [8]), which we also extend to pinning models.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5308,
  title  = {The Critical Curve of the Random Pinning and Copolymer Models at Weak Coupling},
  author = {Quentin Berger and Francesco Caravenna and Julien Poisat and Rongfeng Sun and Nikos Zygouras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5308},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Added a heuristic explanation, updated references, and other minor changes; version to appear on CMP