An almost sure CLT for stretched polymers (Q388995)

The authors consider diffusive behaviour in \({\mathbb Z}^{d+1}\), \(d\geq 3\), for the related models of stretched polymers. A stretched path \(\gamma\) can be any nearest-neighbour path on \({\mathbb Z}^{d+1}.\) The disorder is modeled by a collection \(\{V(x)\}_{x\in {\mathbb Z}^{d+1}}\) of i.i.d. non-negative random variables. Each visit of the path to a vertex \(x\) exerts the price \(\exp(-\beta V(x)) \), \(\beta>0\). One (of two) way of introduction of the stretch is that the path \(\gamma\) has a fixed length, but it is subject to a drift, which can be interpreted physically as the effect of a force acting on the polymer's free end. In the paper, an almost-sure central limit theorem is established for the endpoint of the fixed-length version of the model of stretched polymers with non-zero drifts, also at sufficiently high temperatures and in all dimensions \(d+1\geq 4\).