Correlation lengths for random polymer models and for some renewal sequences

DOI10.1214/EJP.V12-414zbMATH Open1136.82013arXivmath/0611868MaRDI QIDQ2461983FDOQ2461983

Authors: Fabio Lucio Toninelli 

Publication date: 23 November 2007

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

Abstract: We consider models of directed polymers interacting with a one-dimensional defect line on which random charges are placed. More abstractly, one starts from renewal sequence on $$ and gives a random (site-dependent) reward or penalty to the occurrence of a renewal at any given point of $mathbbZ$. These models are known to undergo a delocalization-localization transition, and the free energy $f$ vanishes when the critical point is approached from the localized region. We prove that the quenched correlation length $xi$, defined as the inverse of the rate of exponential decay of the two-point function, does not diverge faster than $1/f$. We prove also an exponentially decaying upper bound for the disorder-averaged two-point function, with a good control of the sub-exponential prefactor. We discuss how, in the particular case where disorder is absent, this result can be seen as a refinement of the classical renewal theorem, for a specific class of renewal sequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611868

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zbMATH Keywords

renewal theorycritical exponentspinning and wetting modelstypical and average correlation lengthsexponential convergence rates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Renewal theory (60K05)

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