One-dimensional polymers in random environments: stretching vs. folding

DOI10.1214/22-EJP862zbMATH Open1506.82041arXiv2002.06899MaRDI QIDQ2679547FDOQ2679547

Authors: Quentin Berger, Chien-Hao Huang, Niccolò Torri, Ran Wei 

Publication date: 23 January 2023

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

Abstract: In this article we study a emph{non-directed polymer model} on $mathbbZ$, that is a one-dimensional simple random walk placed in a random environment. More precisely, the law of the random walk is modified by the exponential of the sum of "rewards" (or penalities) $$ sitting on the range of the random walk, where $(omeg{a}_x{)}_{xinmathbbZ}$ are i.i.d. random variables (the disorder), and where $$ (disorder strength) and $hinmathbbR$ (external field) are two parameters. When $$, this corresponds to a random walk penalized by its range; when $$, this corresponds to the "standard" polymer model in random environment, except that it is non-directed. In this work, we allow the parameters $$ to vary according to the length of the random walk, and we study in detail the competition between the emph{stretching effect} of the disorder, the emph{folding effect} of the external field (if $hge0$), and the emph{entropy cost} of atypical trajectories. We prove a complete description of the (rich) phase diagram. For instance, in the case $$ of the non-directed polymer, if $omeg{a}_x$ ha a finite second moment, we find a transversal fluctuation exponent $xi=2/3$, and we identify the limiting distribution of the rescaled log-partition function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06899

Recommendations

• Non-directed polymers in heavy-tail random environment in dimension \(d\geq 2\)
• Crossing random walks and stretched polymers at weak disorder
• Directed polymers in a random environment with heavy tails
• Directed polymers in a random environment: Some results on fluctuations
• Weak disorder for low dimensional polymers: the model of stable laws

zbMATH Keywords

random walkrangerandom polymersuper-diffusivityheavy-tail distributionssub-diffusivityweak-coupling limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Processes in random environments (60K37) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Cube root asymptotics
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The growth of random walks and Levy processes
• On the law of the supremum of Lévy processes
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Multi-excited random walks on integers
• Suprema of Lévy processes
• On extrema of stable processes
• Excited random walk
• On the Distribution of the Supremum Functional for Processes with Stationary Independent Increments
• On the location of the maximum of a continuous stochastic process
• Localization of a two-dimensional random walk with an attractive path interaction
• Non-directed polymers in heavy-tail random environment in dimension \(d\geq 2\)
• Directed polymers in random environments. École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLVI -- 2016
• Entropy-controlled last-passage percolation
• On birth and death processes in symmetric random environment
• The maximum of a random walk whose mean path has a maximum
• On the number of distinct sites visited by a random walk
• Notes on random walks in the Cauchy domain of attraction
• Depinning of a polymer in a multi-interface medium
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Convergence of the normalized one-dimensional wiener sausage path measures to a mixture of brownian taboo processes
• Cramér's estimate for stable processes with power drift
• The random walk penalised by its range in dimensions \(d\geqslant 3\)
• Geometry of the random walk range conditioned on survival among Bernoulli obstacles
• Directed polymers in heavy-tail random environment

Cited In (2)

• Scaling limits for the random walk penalized by its range in dimension one
• Scaling limit of a one-dimensional polymer in a repulsive i.i.d. environment

This page was built for publication: One-dimensional polymers in random environments: stretching vs. folding

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2679547)