Undirected polymers in random environment: path properties in the mean field limit

zbMATH Open1505.60082arXiv2012.04076MaRDI QIDQ5870409FDOQ5870409

Authors: Nicola Kistler, Adrien Schertzer 

Publication date: 9 January 2023

Abstract: We consider the problem of undirected polymers (tied at the endpoints) in random environment, also known as the unoriented first passage percolation on the hypercube, in the limit of large dimensions. By means of the multiscale refinement of the second moment method we obtain a fairly precise geometrical description of optimal paths, i.e. of polymers with minimal energy. The picture which emerges can be loosely summarized as follows. The energy of the polymer is, to first approximation, uniformly spread along the strand. The polymer's bonds carry however a lower energy than in the directed setting, and are reached through the following geometrical evolution. Close to the origin, the polymer proceeds in oriented fashion -- it is thus as stretched as possible. The tension of the strand decreases however gradually, with the polymer allowing for more and more backsteps as it enters the core of the hypercube. Backsteps, although increasing the length of the strand, allow the polymer to connect reservoirs of energetically favorable edges which are otherwise unattainable in a fully directed regime. These reservoirs lie at mesoscopic distance apart, but in virtue of the high dimensional nature of the ambient space, the polymer manages to connect them through approximate geodesics with respect to the Hamming metric: this is the key strategy which leads to an optimal energy/entropy balance. Around halfway, the mirror picture sets in: the polymer tension gradually builds up again, until full orientedness close to the endpoint. The approach yields, as a corollary, a constructive proof of the result by Martinsson [Ann. Appl. Prob. 26 (2016), Ann. Prob. 46 (2018)] concerning the leading order of the ground state.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04076

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zbMATH Keywords

hypercubefirst passage percolationmean field limitsundirected polymers in random environment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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