Pinning of a renewal on a quenched renewal

DOI10.1214/18-EJP136MaRDI QIDQ1748907zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth S. Alexander, Quentin Berger

Publication date 15 May 2018

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03265, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1518426053

zbMATH Keywords

disorder relevancelocalization transitionpinning modelquenched disorderrenewal process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renewal theory (60K05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We introduce the pinning model on a quenched renewal, which is an instance of a (strongly correlated) disordered pinning model. The potential takes value 1 at the renewal times of a quenched realization of a renewal process $sigma$, and $0$ elsewhere, so nonzero potential values become sparse if the gaps in $sigma$ have infinite mean. The "polymer" -- of length $sigm{a}_N$ -- is given by another renewal $au$, whose law is modified by the Boltzmann weight $$. Our assumption is that $au$ and $sigma$ have gap distributions with power-law-decay exponents $1+alpha$ and $1+ildealpha$ respectively, with $alphageq0,ildealpha>0$. There is a localization phase transition: above a critical value $$ the free energy is positive, meaning that $au$ is emph{pinned} on the quenched renewal $sigma$. We consider the question of relevance of the disorder, that is to know when $$ differs from its annealed counterpart $$. We show that $$ whenever $alpha+ildealphageq1$, and $$ if and only if the renewal $aucapsigma$ is recurrent. On the other hand, we show $$ when $alpha+frac32,ildealpha<1$. We give evidence that this should in fact be true whenever $alpha+ildealpha<1$, providing examples for all such $alpha,ildealpha$ of distributions of $au,sigma$ for which $$. We additionally consider two natural variants of the model: one in which the polymer and disorder are constrained to have equal numbers of renewals ($sigm{a}_N=a{u}_N$), and one in which the polymer length is $a{u}_N$ rather than $sigm{a}_N$. In both cases we show the critical point is the same as in the original model, at least when $alpha>0$.

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