2015/08/27 by Michael Cranston, Cranston, Michael, Stanislav Molchanov +1
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR) #math.PR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1508.06915
arxiv created 2015/08/27 · arxiv updated 2015/08/28
Taking P0 to be the measure induced by simple, symmetric nearest neighbor continuous time random walk on \bfZd starting at 0 with jump rate 2d define, for β≥ 0, t>0, the Gibbs probability measure Pβ,t by specifying its density with respect to P0 as \fracdPβ,tdP0=Zβ,t(0)-1eβ∫0tδ0(xs)ds where Zβ,t(0)≡ E0[eβ∫0tδ0(xs)ds]. This Gibbs probability measure provides a simple model for a homopolymer with an attractive potential at the origin. In a previous paper \citeCM07, we showed that for dimension d≥3 there is a phase transition in the behavior of these paths from diffusive behavior for β below a critical parameter to positive recurrent behavior for β above this critical value. This corresponds to a transition from a diffusive or stretched out phase to a globular phase for the polymer. The critical value was determined by means of the spectral properties of the operator Δ+βδ0 where Δ is the discrete Laplacian on \bfZd. In this paper we give a description of the polymer at the critical value where the phase transition takes place. The behavior at the critical parameter is in some sense midway between the two phases and dimension dependent.