Asymptotic behavior of the gyration radius for long-range self-avoiding walk and long-range oriented percolation (Q2431517): Difference between revisions

The main goal is to find the sharp asymptotics as \(t\to\infty\) of the gyration radius of order \(r>0\), defined as \[ \xi_t^{(r)}= \left(\frac{\sum_{x\in\mathbb Z^d}|x|^r\varphi_t(x)} {\sum_{x\in\mathbb Z^d}\varphi_t(x)}\right)^{1/r}. \] Here, \(\varphi_t(x)\) is the two-point function for a \(t\)-step self-avoiding walk (whose 1-step distribution \(D\) is symmetric and decays as \(|x|^{-d-\alpha}\), \(\alpha >0\)) or for an oriented percolation whose bond-occupation probability for each bond has a specified form depending on \(D\). Thus, the large-\(t\) asymptotics are studied for the average end-to-end distance of a random self-avoiding walk of length \(t\) or the average spatial size of an oriented percolation cluster at time \(t\). It is proved that, for a class of long-range models and every \(r\in (0,\alpha)\), one has \(\xi_t^{(r)}=O(t^{1/(\alpha \wedge 2)})\) if \(\alpha\neq 2\) and \(\xi_t^{(r)}= O(\sqrt{t\log t})\) if \(\alpha=2\). \textit{M. Heydenreich} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Probab. Stat. 47, No. 1, 20--42 (2011; Zbl 1210.82055)] proved these relations for a self-avoiding walk, but for small \(r<\alpha \wedge 2\) only.