Asymptotic behavior of the gyration radius for long-range self-avoiding walk and long-range oriented percolation

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Abstract: We consider random walk and self-avoiding walk whose 1-step distribution is given by D, and oriented percolation whose bond-occupation probability is proportional to D. Suppose that D(x) decays as |x|−d−alpha with alpha>0. For random walk in any dimension d and for self-avoiding walk and critical/subcritical oriented percolation above the common upper-critical dimension dmathrmcequiv2(alphawedge2), we prove large-t asymptotics of the gyration radius, which is the average end-to-end distance of random walk/self-avoiding walk of length t or the average spatial size of an oriented percolation cluster at time t. This proves the conjecture for long-range self-avoiding walk in [Ann. Inst. H. Poincar'{e} Probab. Statist. (2010), to appear] and for long-range oriented percolation in [Probab. Theory Related Fields 142 (2008) 151--188] and [Probab. Theory Related Fields 145 (2009) 435--458].


The main goal is to find the sharp asymptotics as \(t\to\infty\) of the gyration radius of order \(r>0\), defined as \[ \xi_t^{(r)}= \left(\frac{\sum_{x\in\mathbb Z^d}|x|^r\varphi_t(x)} {\sum_{x\in\mathbb Z^d}\varphi_t(x)}\right)^{1/r}. \] Here, \(\varphi_t(x)\) is the two-point function for a \(t\)-step self-avoiding walk (whose 1-step distribution \(D\) is symmetric and decays as \(|x|^{-d-\alpha}\), \(\alpha >0\)) or for an oriented percolation whose bond-occupation probability for each bond has a specified form depending on \(D\). Thus, the large-\(t\) asymptotics are studied for the average end-to-end distance of a random self-avoiding walk of length \(t\) or the average spatial size of an oriented percolation cluster at time \(t\). It is proved that, for a class of long-range models and every \(r\in (0,\alpha)\), one has \(\xi_t^{(r)}=O(t^{1/(\alpha \wedge 2)})\) if \(\alpha\neq 2\) and \(\xi_t^{(r)}= O(\sqrt{t\log t})\) if \(\alpha=2\). \textit{M. Heydenreich} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Probab. Stat. 47, No. 1, 20--42 (2011; Zbl 1210.82055)] proved these relations for a self-avoiding walk, but for small \(r<\alpha \wedge 2\) only.











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