Crossing random walks and stretched polymers at weak disorder

DOI10.1214/10-AOP625zbMATH Open1251.60074arXiv1002.4289OpenAlexW1980167280MaRDI QIDQ414285FDOQ414285

Authors: Yvan Velenik, Dmitry Ioffe 

Publication date: 11 May 2012

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

Abstract: We consider a model of a polymer in $mathbb{Z}^{d+1}$, constrained to join 0 and a hyperplane at distance $N$. The polymer is subject to a quenched nonnegative random environment. Alternatively, the model describes crossing random walks in a random potential (see Zerner [Ann Appl. Probab. 8 (1998) 246--280] or Chapter 5 of Sznitman [Brownian Motion, Obstacles and Random Media (1998) Springer] for the original Brownian motion formulation). It was recently shown [Ann. Probab. 36 (2008) 1528--1583; Probab. Theory Related Fields 143 (2009) 615--642] that, in such a setting, the quenched and annealed free energies coincide in the limit $Noinfty$, when $dgeq3$ and the temperature is sufficiently high. We first strengthen this result by proving that, under somewhat weaker assumptions on the distribution of disorder which, in particular, enable a small probability of traps, the ratio of quenched and annealed partition functions actually converges. We then conclude that, in this case, the polymer obeys a diffusive scaling, with the same diffusivity constant as the annealed model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4289

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zbMATH Keywords

central limit theorempolymerdiffusivityOrnstein-Zernike theoryquenched random environment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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