Disorder and critical phenomena through basic probability models. École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XL -- 2010.
The main purpose of the book is to explore the effect of disorder in the framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics of lattice models, that is, for Gibbs measures with random interactions or random external fields. The book consists of eight chapters and an appendix. Chapter 1 is an introduction. In Chapter 2, a general class of homogeneous pinning models is introduced and solved. The emphasis is on the renewal process viewpoint, and the author is interested in when the process comes back to 0 and not so much in what it does outside of 0. The return times to 0 form a random sequence that is a renewal sequence. This chapter also contains a quick review of the modeling aspects. In Chapter 3 the disordered pinning models and some basic techniques are introduced. This chapter contains the notion of disordered free energy. In the next chapter, the Harris criterion is introduced and two heuristic arguments in favor of this criterion are provided. The notions of relevant and irrelevant disorder are introduced. A mathematical proof of disorder irrelevance in agreement with the Harris criterion prediction is given. In Chapter 5 it is shown that disorder is relevant when predicted by Harris criterion. Moreover, this chapter contains an overview of what is known or is expected to hold for the Ising model. In Chapter 6 the shift of the critical point is studied. This includes the analysis of the case of marginal disorder, i.e., neither relevant nor irrelevant, a debated issue in the physical literature. In the next chapter the coarse graining estimates are proved. Chapter 8 is devoted to path properties and it is showed that they are tightly linked to the free energy. The appendix is about discrete renewal processes and it is split into two parts: in the first part some basic tools and results of the theory are reviewed, the second part is about some issues that are more specific to pinning models.
- Renewal sequences, disordered potentials, and pinning phenomena
- The continuum disordered pinning model
- Marginal relevance of disorder for pinning models
- Pinning model in random correlated environment: appearance of an infinite disorder regime
- Pinning on a defect line: characterization of marginal disorder relevance and sharp asymptotics for the critical point shift
- Disorder and wetting transition: the pinned harmonic crystal in dimension three or larger
- The free energy in the Derrida-Retaux recursive model
- On the maximum of conditioned random walks and tightness for pinning models
- On the moments of the (2+1)-dimensional directed polymer and stochastic heat equation in the critical window
- The Derrida-Retaux conjecture on recursive models
- Directed polymer in \(\gamma\)-stable random environments
- Influence of disorder on DNA denaturation: the disordered generalized Poland-Scheraga model
- Phase transitions for spatially extended pinning
- The sustainability probability for the critical Derrida-Retaux model
- The continuum directed polymer in Lévy noise
- Cutoff for polymer pinning dynamics in the repulsive phase
- Metastability for expanding bubbles on a sticky substrate
- Continuum models of directed polymers on disordered diamond fractals in the critical case
- Weak coupling limits for directed polymers in tube environments
- The two-dimensional continuum random field Ising model
- The disordered lattice free field pinning model approaching criticality
- Surface transition in the collapsed phase of a self-interacting walk adsorbed along a hard wall
- The Dickman subordinator, renewal theorems, and disordered systems
- Disorder and critical phenomena: the \(\alpha =0\) copolymer model
- Local large deviations and the strong renewal theorem
- The random pinning model with correlated disorder given by a renewal set
- Continuum limit of random matrix products in statistical mechanics of disordered systems
- Path properties of the disordered pinning model in the delocalized regime
- Pinning model in random correlated environment: appearance of an infinite disorder regime
- The continuum disordered pinning model
- A limit theorem for the survival probability of a simple random walk among power-law renewal obstacles
- Condensation and extremes for a fluctuating number of independent random variables
- Localization, big-jump regime and the effect of disorder for a class of generalized pinning models
- Solid-on-solid interfaces with disordered pinning
- Large deviation principles for renewal-reward processes
- Weak-disorder limit for directed polymers on critical hierarchical graphs with vertex disorder
- Strong disorder renewal approach to DNA denaturation and wetting: typical and large deviation properties of the free energy
- Hierarchical pinning model in correlated random environment
- The scaling limit of polymer pinning dynamics and a one dimensional Stefan freezing problem
- Sharp critical behavior for pinning models in a random correlated environment
- Non-criticality criteria for abelian sandpile models with sources and sinks
- Pinning on a defect line: characterization of marginal disorder relevance and sharp asymptotics for the critical point shift
- Directed polymers on a disordered tree with a defect subtree
- The Buffon needle problem for Lévy distributed spacings and renewal theory
- Polynomial chaos and scaling limits of disordered systems
- Results and conjectures on a toy model of depinning
- The critical behaviors and the scaling functions of a coalescence equation
- Statistical fluctuations under resetting: rigorous results
- The critical 2d stochastic heat flow
- Wetting on a wall and wetting in a well: overview of equilibrium properties
- Directed polymers in a random environment: a review of the phase transitions
- Localization of a one-dimensional simple random walk among power-law renewal obstacles
- Scaling limit of the disordered generalized Poland-Scheraga model for DNA denaturation
- Universality in the 2d quasi-periodic Ising model and Harris-Luck irrelevance
- Infinite disorder renormalization fixed point for the continuum random field Ising chain
- Polymer in a multi-interface medium with weak repulsion
- Pinning and disorder relevance for the lattice Gaussian free field
- A connection between the random pinning model and random walks in sparse random environments
- The critical disordered pinning measure
- Generalized Poland-Scheraga denaturation model and two-dimensional renewal processes
- Scaling limits of disorder relevant non-binary spin systems
- On a pinning model in correlated Gaussian random environments
- Disorder and denaturation transition in the generalized Poland-Scheraga model
- The two-dimensional KPZ equation in the entire subcritical regime
- Pinning model with heavy tailed disorder
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