Continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk on \mathbb{Z} has strictly monotone escape speed

arXiv2210.15580MaRDI QIDQ6415342FDOQ6415342

Authors: Yucheng Liu 

Publication date: 27 October 2022

Abstract: Weakly self-avoiding walk (WSAW) is a model of simple random walk paths that penalizes self-intersections. On $mathbbZ$, Greven and den Hollander proved in 1993 that the discrete-time weakly self-avoiding walk has an asymptotically deterministic escape speed, and they conjectured that this speed should be strictly increasing in the repelling strength parameter. We study a continuous-time version of the model, give a different existence proof for the speed, and prove the speed to be strictly increasing. The proof uses a supersymmetric version of BFS--Dynkin isomorphism theorem, spectral theory, Tauberian theory, and stochastic dominance.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

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