On the irrelevant disorder regime of pinning models (Q1035863)

The disordered pinning model of finite size \(N\in\mathbb{N}\) and parameters \(\beta\geq 0\) and \(h\in \mathbb{R}\) is defined by introducing the probability measure \(P_{N,\omega,\beta,h}\) and the sequence of independent standard normal random variables \(\omega:=\{\omega_n\}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\) via the formula \[ \frac{dP_{N,\omega,\beta,h}}{dP}(\tau):= \frac{1}{Z_{N,\omega}} \exp(\sum_{n=1}^N (\beta\omega_n +h){\mathbf 1}_{n\in \tau} ){\mathbf 1}_{N\in \tau}, \] where \(Z_{N,\omega}\) is the normalization function. The authors establish sharper results on the irrelevant disorder regime of pinning models: compute the first order term in the expansion of the free energy close to criticality and this term coincides with the first order of the formal expansion obtained by field theory methods; show that the quenched and quenched averaged correlation length exponents coincide, while in general, they are expected to be different.