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Aldous’ conjecture on a killed branching random walk

Yueyun Hu (2010)

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Consider a branching random walk on the real line with an killing barrier at zero: starting from a nonnegative point, particles reproduce and move independently, but are killed when they touch the negative half-line. The population of the killed branching random walk dies out almost surely in both critical and subcritical cases, where by subcritical case we mean that the rightmost particle of the branching random walk without killing has a negative speed and by critical case when this...

Upper tails of self-intersection local times of random walks: survey of proof techniques

Wolfgang König (2010)

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The asymptotics of the probability that the self-intersection local time of a random walk on ℤ d exceeds its expectation by a large amount is a fascinating subject because of its relation to some models from Statistical Mechanics, to large-deviation theory and variational analysis and because of the variety of the effects that can be observed. However, the proof of the upper bound is notoriously difficult and requires various sophisticated techniques. We survey some heuristics and some...

Supersymmetry, Witten complex and asymptotics for directional Lyapunov exponents in 𝐙 d

Wei-Min Wang (1999)

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By using a supersymmetric gaussian representation, we transform the averaged Green's function for random walks in random potentials into a 2-point correlation function of a corresponding lattice field theory. We study the resulting lattice field theory using the Witten laplacian formulation. We obtain the asymptotics for the directional Lyapunov exponents.

Semidirected random polymers: Strong disorder and localization

Nikolaos Zygouras (2010)

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Semi-directed, random polymers can be modeled by a simple random walk on Z d in a random potential - ( λ + β ω ( x ) ) x ∈ Z d , where λ > 0 , β > 0 and ω ( x ) x ∈ Z d is a collection of i.i.d., nonnegative random variables. We identify situations where the annealed and quenched costs, that the polymer pays to perform long crossings are different. In these situations we show that the polymer exhibits localization.

Superdiffusivity for directed polymer in corelated random environment

Hubert Lacoin (2010)

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The directed polymer in random environment models the behavior of a polymer chain in a solution with impurities. It is a particular case of random walk in random environment. In 1 + 1 dimensional environment is has been shown by Petermann that this random walk is superdiffusive. We show superdiffusivity properties are reinforced were there are long ranged correlation in the environment and that super diffusivity also occurs in higher dimensions.