Interacting partially directed self avoiding walk: scaling limits

DOI10.1214/16-EJP4618zbMATH Open1346.60136arXiv1507.08332OpenAlexW2963702723MaRDI QIDQ303569FDOQ303569

Authors: Philippe Carmona, Nicolas Pétrélis 

Publication date: 22 August 2016

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

Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the investigation of a $1+1$ dimensional self-interacting and partially directed self-avoiding walk, usually referred to by the acronym IPDSAW and introduced in cite{ZL68} by Zwanzig and Lauritzen to study the collapse transition of an homopolymer dipped in a poor solvant. In cite{POBG93}, physicists displayed numerical results concerning the typical growth rate of some geometric features of the path as its length $L$ diverges. From this perspective the quantities of interest are the projections of the path onto the horizontal axis (also called horizontal extension) and onto the vertical axis for which it is useful to define the lower and the upper envelopes of the path. With the help of a new random walk representation, we proved in cite{CNGP13} that the path grows horizontally like $sqrtL$ in its collapsed regime and that, once rescaled by $sqrtL$ vertically and horizontally, its upper and lower envelopes converge to some deterministic Wulff shapes. In the present paper, we bring the geometric investigation of the path several steps further. In the extended regime, we prove a law of large number for the horizontal extension of the polymer rescaled by its total length $L$, we provide a precise asymptotics of the partition function and we show that its lower and upper envelopes, once rescaled in time by $L$ and in space by $sqrtL$, converge to the same Brownian motion. At criticality, we identify the limiting distribution of the horizontal extension rescaled by $L^{2/3}$ and we show that the excess partition function decays as $L^{2/3}$ with an explicit prefactor. In the collapsed regime, we identify the joint limiting distribution of the fluctuations of the upper and lower envelopes around their associated limiting Wulff shapes, rescaled in time by $sqrtL$ and in space by $L^{1/4}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08332

Recommendations

• Interacting partially directed self avoiding walk. From phase transition to the geometry of the collapsed phase
• Collapse transition of the interacting prudent walk
• A sharp asymptotics of the partition function for the collapsed interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk
• A shape theorem for the scaling limit of the IPDSAW at criticality
• Interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk: a probabilistic perspective

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionlarge deviationslaw of large numbersself-avoiding walkBrownian arealimiting distributionpolymer collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Brownian motion (60J65) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Cited In (8)

• A shape theorem for the scaling limit of the IPDSAW at criticality
• A sharp asymptotics of the partition function for the collapsed interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk
• Scaling limit of ballistic self-avoiding walk interacting with spatial random permutations
• Restoration of universality for the rod-to-coil transition scaling in the infinite-dimensionality limit: exact results for directed walks.
• Interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk: a probabilistic perspective
• Limit theorems for random walk excursion conditioned to enclose a typical area
• Fixed-magnetization Ising model with a slowly varying magnetic field
• Exact solution of weighted partially directed walks crossing a square

This page was built for publication: Interacting partially directed self avoiding walk: scaling limits

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q303569)