The intermediate disorder regime for a directed polymer model on a hierarchical lattice
The intermediate disorder regime for a directed polymer model on a hierarchical lattice
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10.1016/j.spa.2017.02.011
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2015-08
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Tom Alberts;J. Clark;S. Kocić
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作者:
Tom Alberts;J. Clark;S. Kocić
We study a directed polymer model defined on a hierarchical diamond lattice, where the lattice is constructed recursively through a recipe depending on a branching number b∈ N and a segment number s∈ N. When b≤ s it is known that the model exhibits strong disorder for all positive values of the inverse temperature β, and thus weak disorder reigns only for β= 0 (infinite temperature). Our focus is on the so-called intermediate disorder regime in which the inverse temperature β≡ β n vanishes at an appropriate rate as the size n of the system grows. Our analysis requires separate treatment for the cases b< s and b= s. In the case b< s we prove that when the inverse temperature is taken to be of the form β n= β ̂ (b/s) n/2 for β ̂> 0, the normalized partition function of the system converges weakly as n→∞ to a distribution L (β ̂) and does so universally with respect to the initial weight distribution. We prove the convergence using renormalization group type ideas rather than the standard Wiener chaos analysis. In the case b= s we find a critical point in the behavior of the model when the inverse temperature is scaled as β n= β ̂/n; for an explicitly computable critical value κ b> 0 the variance of the normalized partition function converges to zero with large n when β ̂≤ κ b and grows without bound when β ̂> κ b. Finally, we prove a central limit theorem for the normalized partition function when β ̂≤ κ b.