Soft local times and decoupling of random interlacements

DOI10.4171/JEMS/565zbMATH Open1329.60342arXiv1212.1605OpenAlexW1795975719MaRDI QIDQ891764FDOQ891764

Authors: S. Popov, A. Teixeira 

Publication date: 17 November 2015

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we establish a decoupling feature of the random interlacement process I^u in Z^d, at level u, for d geq 3. Roughly speaking, we show that observations of I^u restricted to two disjoint subsets A_1 and A_2 of Z^d are approximately independent, once we add a sprinkling to the process I^u by slightly increasing the parameter u. Our results differ from previous ones in that we allow the mutual distance between the sets A_1 and A_2 to be much smaller than their diameters. We then provide an important application of this decoupling for which such flexibility is crucial. More precisely, we prove that, above a certain critical threshold u**, the probability of having long paths that avoid I^u is exponentially small, with logarithmic corrections for d=3. To obtain the above decoupling, we first develop a general method for comparing the trace left by two Markov chains on the same state space. This method is based in what we call the soft local time of a chain. In another crucial step towards our main result, we also prove that any discrete set can be "smoothened" into a slightly enlarged discrete set, for which its equilibrium measure behaves in a regular way. Both these auxiliary results are interesting in themselves and are presented independently from the rest of the paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1605

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chainsrandom interlacementsstochastic dominationdecouplingconnectivity decaysmoothening of discrete setssoft local times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Local time and additive functionals (60J55) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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