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The quenched asymptotics for nonlocal Schr\"odinger operators with Poissonian potentials

Probability 2016-01-22 v1 Functional Analysis Spectral Theory

Abstract

We study the quenched long time behaviour of the survival probability up to time tt, Ex[e0tVω(Xs)ds],\mathbf{E}_x\big[e^{-\int_0^t V^{\omega}(X_s){\rm d}s}\big], of a symmetric L\'evy process with jumps, under a sufficiently regular Poissonian random potential VωV^{\omega} on Rd\mathbb{R}^d. Such a function is a probabilistic solution to the parabolic eq. involving the nonlocal Schr\"odinger operator based on the generator of (Xt)t0(X_t)_{t \geq 0} with potential VωV^{\omega}. For a large class of processes and potentials, we determine rate functions η(t)\eta(t) and positive constants C1,C2C_1, C_2 such that C1lim inftlogEx[e0tVω(Xs)ds]η(t)lim suptlogEx[e0tVω(Xs)ds]η(t)C2,-C_1 \leq \liminf_{t \to \infty} \frac{\log \mathbf{E}_x\big[{\rm e}^{-\int_0^t V^{\omega}(X_s){\rm d}s}\big]}{\eta(t)} \leq \limsup_{t \to \infty} \frac{\log \mathbf{E}_x\big[{\rm e}^{-\int_0^t V^{\omega}(X_s){\rm d}s}\big]}{\eta(t)} \leq -C_2, almost surely with respect to ω\omega, for every fixed xRdx \in \mathbb{R}^d. The functions η(t)\eta(t) and the bounds C1,C2C_1, C_2 heavily depend on the intensity of large jumps of the process. In particular, if its decay at infinity is `sufficiently fast', then we prove that C1=C2C_1=C_2, i.e. the limit exists. Representative examples in this class are relativistic stable processes with L\'evy-Khintchine exponents ψ(ξ)=(ξ2+m2/α)α/2m\psi(\xi) = (|\xi|^2+m^{2/\alpha})^{\alpha/2}-m, α(0,2)\alpha \in (0,2), m>0m>0, for which \lim_{t \to \infty} \frac{\log \mathbf{E}_x\big[{\rm e}^{-\int_0^t V^{\omega}(X_s)ds}\big]}{t/(\log t)^{2/d}} = \frac{\alpha}{2} m^{1-\frac{2}{\alpha}} \, \left(\frac{\rho \omega_d}{d}\right)^{\frac{d}{2}} \, \lambda_1^{BM}(B(0,1)), \quad \mbox{for almost all $\omega$,} where λ1BM(B(0,1))\lambda_1^{BM}(B(0,1)) is the principal eigenvalue of the Brownian motion in the unit ball, ωd\omega_d is the Lebesgue measure of a unit ball and ρ>0\rho>0 corresponds to VωV^{\omega}. We also identify two interesting regime changes ('transitions') in the growth properties of η(t)\eta(t)

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@article{arxiv.1601.05597,
  title  = {The quenched asymptotics for nonlocal Schr\"odinger operators with Poissonian potentials},
  author = {Kamil Kaleta and Katarzyna Pietruska-Pałuba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05597},
  year   = {2016}
}

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