UCL Discovery Stage
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery Stage

On a Factorization Formula for the Partition Function of Directed Polymers

Hurth, T; Khanin, K; Navarro Lameda, B; Nazarov, F; (2023) On a Factorization Formula for the Partition Function of Directed Polymers. Journal of Statistical Physics , 190 (10) , Article 165. 10.1007/s10955-023-03172-w. Green open access

[thumbnail of s10955-023-03172-w.pdf]
Preview
PDF
s10955-023-03172-w.pdf - Published Version

Download (536kB) | Preview

Abstract

We prove a factorization formula for the point-to-point partition function associated with a model of directed polymers on the space-time lattice Zd+1 . The polymers are subject to a random potential induced by independent identically distributed random variables and we consider the regime of weak disorder, where polymers behave diffusively. We show that when writing the quotient of the point-to-point partition function and the transition probability for the underlying random walk as the product of two point-to-line partition functions plus an error term, then, for large time intervals [0, t], the error term is small uniformly over starting points x and endpoints y in the sub-ballistic regime ‖ x- y‖ ≤ tσ , where σ< 1 can be arbitrarily close to 1. This extends a result of Sinai, who proved smallness of the error term in the diffusive regime ‖ x- y‖ ≤ t1 / 2 . We also derive asymptotics for spatial and temporal correlations of the field of limiting partition functions.

Type: Article
Title: On a Factorization Formula for the Partition Function of Directed Polymers
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-023-03172-w
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-023-03172-w
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 Springer Nature. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Directed polymers, Partition function, Random walk in a random environment, Weak disorder
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181815
Downloads since deposit
168Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item