Asymptotics of the p-capacity in the critical regime

Publication date: 7 December 2021

Abstract: In this note, we are interested in the asymptotics as

n o i n f t y

of the

p

-capacity between the origin and the set

n B

, where

B

is the boundary of the unit ball of the lattice

m a t h b b Z^{d}

. The

p

-capacity is defined as the minimum of the Dirichlet energy

f r a c 12 s u m_{x i n m a t h b b Z^{d}} s u m_{y s i m x} | f (x) - f (y) |^{p}

with

f

subject to the boundary conditions

f (0) = 0

and

f g e q 1

on

n B

. This variational problem has arisen in particular in the study of large deviations for first passage percolation. For

p < d

, the

p

-capacity converges to some positive constant, while for

p > d

the capacity vanishes polynomially fast. The present paper deals with the case

p = d

, for which we prove that the

p

-capacity vanishes as

c_{d} (l o g n)^{- d + 1}

with an explicit constant

c_{d}

.

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