Coupling Brownian loop soups and random walk loop soups at all polynomial scales
Abstract
Lawler and Trujillo Ferreras constructed a well-known coupling between the Brownian loop soups in and the random walk loop soups on (one rescales the random walk loops by , their time parametrizations by , and let ), which led to numerous applications. It nevertheless only holds for loops with time length at least for . In particular, there is no control on mesoscopic loops with time length less than (i.e. roughly diameter less than ). This coupling was subsequently extended by Sapozhnikov and Shiraishi to with , for loops with time length at least , for . In this paper, we find a simple way to remove the restriction , so that such a coupling works for all , i.e. for loops at all polynomial scales. We establish couplings for both discrete-time and continuous-time random walk loop soups on , for .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.02992,
title = {Coupling Brownian loop soups and random walk loop soups at all polynomial scales},
author = {Wei Qian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.02992},
year = {2026}
}
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