Gaussian fluctuations for the directed polymer partition function in dimension \(d\ge 3\) and in the whole \(L^2\)-region (Q2041825)

The polymer model is a description of a long chain of monomers, called a polymer, which interacts with impurities that it may encounter on its path. In this paper, the authors considered the discrete directed polymer model with i.i.d. environment. The fluctuations of the tail of the normalized partition function are studied. It is known that for sufficiently high temperature, the fluctuations converge in distribution towards the product of the limiting partition function and an independent Gaussian random variable. The authors extend the result to the whole \(L^2\)-region of temperature, which is predicted to be the maximal high-temperature region where the Gaussian fluctuations should occur under the considered scaling.