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Equality of critical points for polymer depinning transitions with loop exponent one
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Alexander, Kenneth S. and Zygouras, Nikos (2009) Equality of critical points for polymer depinning transitions with loop exponent one. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology. Working papers, Vol.2009 (No.22).
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Abstract
We consider a polymer with configuration modeled by the trajectory
of a Markov chain, interacting with a potential of form u + Vn when it visits a
particular state 0 at time n, with {Vn} representing i.i.d. quenched disorder. There
is a critical value of u above which the polymer is pinned by the potential. A
particular case not covered in a number of previous studies is that of loop exponent
one, in which the probability of an excursion of length n takes the form φ(n)/n for
some slowly varying φ; this includes simple random walk in two dimensions. We
show that in this case, at all temperatures, the critical values of u in the quenched
and annealed models are equal, in contrast to all other loop exponents, for which
these critical values are known to differ at least at low temperatures.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Statistics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Polymers -- Mathematical models, Markov processes | ||||
Series Name: | Working papers | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.2009 | ||||
Number: | No.22 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Funder: | National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF) | ||||
Grant number: | DMS-0405915 (NSF), DMS-0804934 (NSF) |
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