Diffusive limits for ``true'' (or myopic) self-avoiding random walks and self-repellent Brownian polymers in \(d \geq \) 3 (Q714949)

The problems considered in the present paper have their roots in two different cultures. The ``true'' (or myopic) self-avoiding walk model (TSAW) was introduced in the physics literature by \textit{D. J. Amit, G. Parisi} and \textit{L. Peliti} [``Asymptotic behavior of the ``true'' self-avoiding walk'', Phys. Rev. B 27, No. 3, 1635--1645 (1983; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.27.1635})]. This is a nearest neighbor non-Markovian random walk \(X(t) \in \mathbb{Z}^d\), \(t \in [0,\infty)\), which prefers to jump to those neighbors which were less visited in the past. The self-repelling Brownian polymer model (SRBP), initiated in the probabilistic literature by \textit{R. T. Durrett} and \textit{L. C. G. Rogers} [Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 92, No. 3, 337--349 (1992; Zbl 0767.60080)], is the continuous space-time counterpart: a diffusion \(X(t) \in \mathbb{R}^d\), \(t \in [0,\infty)\), pushed by the negative gradient of the occupation time measure of the process. In both cases, similar long memory effects are caused by a path-wise self-repellency of the trajectories \(\{X(t), t\in [0,\infty)\}\) due to a push by the negative gradient of (softened) local time. Asymptotic behaviour of TSAW and SRBP in \(d \geq 3\) is investigated. First, the authors identify a natural stationary (in time) and ergodic distribution of the environment as seen from the moving particle. The main results are diffusive limits, i.e., \(X(t) \sim t^{1/2}\) with Gaussian scaling limits. These results settle part of the conjectures, based on nonrigorous renormalization group arguments in [J. Amit, G. Parisi and Peliti, loc. cit.]. The proof of the CLT follows the non-reversible version of Kipnis-Varadhan theory. On the way to the proof, the so-called graded sector condition is slightly weakened.