Moments of the 2D directed polymer in the subcritical regime and a generalisation of the Erdös-Taylor theorem

Abstract: We compute the limit of the moments of the partition function

of the directed polymer in dimension

d = 2

in the subcritical regime, i.e. when the inverse temperature is scaled as

for

. In particular, we establish that for every

h i n m a t h b b R

,

We also identify the limit of the moments of the averaged field

, for

v a r p h i i n C_{c} (m a t h b b R^{2})

, as those of a gaussian free field. As a byproduct, we identify the limiting probability distribution of the total pairwise collisions between

h

independent, two dimensional random walks starting at the origin. In particular, we derive that

frac{pi}{log N}sum_{1 leq i<jleq h} mathsf{L}_N^{(i,j)}xrightarrow[N o infty ]{(d)} Gamma�ig( frac{h(h-1)}{2},1�ig) , ,

where

{m a t h s f L}_{N}^{(i, j)}

denotes the collision local time by time

N

between copies

i, j

and

G a m m a

denotes the Gamma distribution. This generalises a classical result of Erd"{o}s-Taylor.

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