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Niccolò Torri

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Non-directed polymers in heavy-tail random environment in dimension $d\geq 2$

In this article we study a \emph{non-directed} polymer model in dimension $d\ge 2$: we consider a simple symmetric random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ which interacts with a random environment, represented by i.i.d. random variables $(ω_x)_{x\in \mathbb{Z}^d}$. The model consists in modifying the law of the random walk up to time (or length) $N$ by the exponential of $\sum_{x\in \mathcal{R}_N}β(ω_x-h)$ where $\mathcal{R}_N$ is the range of the walk, \textit{i.e.} the set of visited sites up to time $N$, and $β\geq 0,\, h\in \mathbb{R}$ are two parameters. We study the behavior of the model in a weak-coupling regime, that is taking $β:=β_N$ vanishing as the length $N$ goes to infinity, and in the case where the random variables $ω$ have a heavy tail with exponent $α\in (0,d)$. We are able to obtain precisely the behavior of polymer trajectories under all possible weak-coupling regimes $β_N = \hat βN^{-γ}$ with $γ\geq 0$: we find the correct transversal fluctuation exponent $ξ$ for the polymer (it depends on $α$ and $γ$) and we give the limiting distribution of the rescaled log-partition function. This extends existing works to the non-directed case and to higher dimensions.

math.PR

Interacting partially directed self-avoiding walk: a probabilistic perspective

We review some recent results obtained in the framework of the 2-dimensional Interacting Self-Avoiding Walk (ISAW). After a brief presentation of the rigorous results that have been obtained so far for ISAW we focus on the Interacting Partially Directed Self-Avoiding Walk (IPDSAW), a model introduced in Zwanzig and Lauritzen (1968) to decrease the mathematical complexity of ISAW. In the first part of the paper, we discuss how a new probabilistic approach based on a random walk representation (see Nguyen and Pétrélis (2013)) allowed for a sharp determination of the asymptotics of the free energy close to criticality (see Carmona, Nguyen and Pétrélis (2016)). Some scaling limits of IPDSAW were conjectured in the physics literature (see e.g. Brak et al. (1993)). We discuss here the fact that all limits are now proven rigorously, i.e., for the extended regime in Carmona and Pétrélis (2016), for the collapsed regime in Carmona, Nguyen and Pétrélis (2016) and at criticality in Carmona and Pétrélis (2017a). The second part of the paper starts with the description of four open questions related to physically relevant extensions of IPDSAW. Among such extensions is the Interacting Prudent Self-Avoiding Walk (IPSAW) whose configurations are those of the 2-dimensional prudent walk. We discuss the main results obtained in Pétrélis and Torri (2016+) about IPSAW and in particular the fact that its collapse transition is proven to exist rigorously.

math.PR

Scaling limit of the uniform prudent walk

We study the 2-dimensional uniform prudent self-avoiding walk, which assigns equal probability to all nearest-neighbor self-avoiding paths of a fixed length that respect the prudent condition, namely, the path cannot take any step in the direction of a previously visited site. The uniform prudent walk has been investigated with combinatorial techniques in [Bousquet-Mélou, 2010], while another variant, the kinetic prudent walk has been analyzed in detail in [Beffara, Friedli and Velenik, 2010]. In this paper, we prove that the $2$-dimensional uniform prudent walk is ballistic and follows one of the $4$ diagonals with equal probability. We also establish a functional central limit theorem for the fluctuations of the path around the diagonal.

math.PR