Annealed vs quenched critical points for a random walk pinning model

DOI10.1214/09-AIHP319zbMATH Open1206.60087arXiv0807.2752OpenAlexW2082370787MaRDI QIDQ985328FDOQ985328

Authors: Matthias Birkner, Rongfeng Sun 

Publication date: 21 July 2010

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a random walk pinning model, where conditioned on a simple random walk Y on Z^d acting as a random medium, the path measure of a second independent simple random walk X up to time t is Gibbs transformed with Hamiltonian -L_t(X,Y), where L_t(X,Y) is the collision local time between X and Y up to time t. This model arises naturally in various contexts, including the study of the parabolic Anderson model with moving catalysts, the parabolic Anderson model with Brownian noise, and the directed polymer model. It falls in the same framework as the pinning and copolymer models, and exhibits a localization-delocalization transition as the inverse temperature �eta varies. We show that in dimensions d=1,2, the annealed and quenched critical values of �eta are both 0, while in dimensions dgeq 4, the quenched critical value of �eta is strictly larger than the annealed critical value (which is positive). This implies the existence of certain intermediate regimes for the parabolic Anderson model with Brownian noise and the directed polymer model. For dgeq 5, the same result has recently been established by Birkner, Greven and den Hollander via a quenched large deviation principle. Our proof is based on a fractional moment method used recently by Derrida, Giacomin, Lacoin and Toninelli to establish the non-coincidence of annealed and quenched critical points for the pinning model in the disorder-relevant regime. The critical case d=3 remains open.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2752

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zbMATH Keywords

random walksdisordered systempinning modelscollision local timeannealed and quenched critical points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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