Mean-field interaction of Brownian occupation measures. II: A rigorous construction of the Pekar process.

DOI10.1002/CPA.21682zbMATH Open1374.60157arXiv1511.05921OpenAlexW2963207920MaRDI QIDQ4978439FDOQ4978439

Authors: Erwin Bolthausen, W. König, Chiranjib Mukherjee 

Publication date: 10 August 2017

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider mean-field interactions corresponding to Gibbs measures on interacting Brownian paths in three dimensions. The interaction is self-attractive and is given by a singular Coulomb potential. The logarithmic asymptotics of the partition function for this model were identified in the 1980s by Donsker and Varadhan [6] in terms of the {it{Pekar variational formula}}, which coincides with the behavior of the partition function of the {it{polaron problem}} under strong coupling. Based on this, in 1986 Spohn [14] made a heuristic observation that the strong coupling behavior of the polaron path measure, on certain time scales, should resemble a process, named as the {it{Pekar process}}, whose distribution could somehow be guessed from the limiting asymptotic behavior of the mean-field measures under interest, whose rigorous analysis remained open. The present paper is devoted to a precise analysis of these mean-field path measures and convergence of the normalized occupation measures towards an explicit mixture of the maximizers of the Pekar variational problem. This leads to a rigorous construction of the aforementioned Pekar process and hence, is a contribution to the understanding of the "mean-field approximation" of the polaron problem on the level of path measures. The method of our proof is based on the compact large deviation theory developed in [11], its extension to the uniform strong metric for the singular Coulomb interaction carried out in [8], as well as an idea inspired by a {it{partial path exchange}} argument appearing in [1].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05921

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zbMATH Keywords

polaron problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Brownian motion (60J65)

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