Weak interaction limits for one-dimensional random polymers

DOI10.1007/S00440-002-0248-9MaRDI QIDQ1396753zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Remco van der Hofstad, F. den Hollander, W. König

Publication date 8 July 2003

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0203213

zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsBrownian motioninvariance principlesscaling limitsuniversalityself-repellent random walk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Local time and additive functionals (60J55) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

Abstract: In this paper we present a new and flexible method to show that, in one dimension, various self-repellent random walks converge to self-repellent Brownian motion in the limit of weak interaction after appropriate space-time scaling. Our method is based on cutting the path into pieces of an appropriately scaled length, controlling the interaction between the different pieces, and applying an invariance principle to the single pieces. In this way we show that the self-repellent random walk large deviation rate function for the empirical drift of the path converges to the self-repellent Brownian motion large deviation rate function after appropriate scaling with the interaction parameters. The method is considerably simpler than the approach followed in our earlier work, which was based on functional analytic arguments applied to variational representations and only worked in a very limited number of situations. We consider two examples of a weak interaction limit: (1) vanishing self-repellence, (2) diverging step variance. In example (1), we recover our earlier scaling results for simple random walk with vanishing self-repellence and show how these can be extended to random walk with steps that have zero mean and a finite exponential moment. Moreover, we show that these scaling results are stable against adding self-attraction, provided the self-repellence dominates. In example (2), we prove a conjecture by Aldous for the scaling of self-avoiding walk with diverging step variance. Moreover, we consider self-avoiding walk on a two-dimensional horizontal strip such that the steps in the vertical direction are uniform over the width of the strip and find the scaling as the width tends to infinity.

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