A renewal theory approach to periodic copolymers with adsorption

DOI10.1214/105051607000000159zbMATH Open1136.82391arXivmath/0507178OpenAlexW3100885511MaRDI QIDQ2467607FDOQ2467607

L. Zambotti, Francesco Caravenna, Giambattista Giacomin

Publication date: 28 January 2008

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a general model of a heterogeneous polymer chain fluctuating in the proximity of an interface between two selective solvents. The heterogeneous character of the model comes from the fact that the monomer units interact with the solvents and with the interface according to some charges that they carry. The charges repeat themselves along the chain in a periodic fashion. The main question concerning this model is whether the polymer remains tightly close to the interface, a phenomenon called localization, or whether there is a marked preference for one of the two solvents, thus yielding a delocalization phenomenon. In this paper, we present an approach that yields sharp estimates for the partition function of the model in all regimes (localized, delocalized and critical). This, in turn, makes possible a precise pathwise description of the polymer measure, obtaining the full scaling limits of the model. A key point is the closeness of the polymer measure to suitable Markov renewal processes, Markov renewal theory being one of the central mathematical tools of our analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507178

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Renewal theory (60K05)

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