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Non-directed polymers in heavy-tail random environment in dimension $d\geq 2$

Probability 2022-09-26 v3

Abstract

In this article we study a \emph{non-directed} polymer model in dimension d2d\ge 2: we consider a simple symmetric random walk on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d which interacts with a random environment, represented by i.i.d. random variables (ωx)xZd(\omega_x)_{x\in \mathbb{Z}^d}. The model consists in modifying the law of the random walk up to time (or length) NN by the exponential of xRNβ(ωxh)\sum_{x\in \mathcal{R}_N}\beta (\omega_x-h) where RN\mathcal{R}_N is the range of the walk, \textit{i.e.} the set of visited sites up to time NN, and β0,hR\beta\geq 0,\, h\in \mathbb{R} are two parameters. We study the behavior of the model in a weak-coupling regime, that is taking β:=βN\beta:=\beta_N vanishing as the length NN goes to infinity, and in the case where the random variables ω\omega have a heavy tail with exponent α(0,d)\alpha\in (0,d). We are able to obtain precisely the behavior of polymer trajectories under all possible weak-coupling regimes βN=β^Nγ\beta_N = \hat \beta N^{-\gamma} with γ0\gamma \geq 0: we find the correct transversal fluctuation exponent ξ\xi for the polymer (it depends on α\alpha and γ\gamma) and we give the limiting distribution of the rescaled log-partition function. This extends existing works to the non-directed case and to higher dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05949,
  title  = {Non-directed polymers in heavy-tail random environment in dimension $d\geq 2$},
  author = {Quentin Berger and Niccolò Torri and Ran Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05949},
  year   = {2022}
}

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59 pages, 1 figure

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