[PDF] Directed Polymers In Random Environments eBook

Author : Francis Comets
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319504878

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Analyzing the phase transition from diffusive to localized behavior in a model of directed polymers in a random environment, this volume places particular emphasis on the localization phenomenon. The main questionis: What does the path of a random walk look like if rewards and penalties are spatially randomly distributed?This model, which provides a simplified version of stretched elastic chains pinned by random impurities, has attracted much research activity, but it (and its relatives) still holds many secrets, especially in high dimensions. It has non-gaussian scaling limits and it belongs to the so-called KPZ universality class when the space is one-dimensional. Adopting a Gibbsian approach, using general and powerful tools from probability theory, the discrete model is studied in full generality. Presenting the state-of-the art from different perspectives, and written in the form of a first course on the subject, this monograph is aimed at researchers in probability or statistical physics, but is also accessible to masters and Ph.D. students.

Author : Frank den Hollander
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3642003338

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Polymer chains that interact with themselves and/or with their environment are fascinating objects, displaying a range of interesting physical and chemical phenomena. The focus in this monograph is on the mathematical description of some of these phenomena, with particular emphasis on phase transitions as a function of interaction parameters, associated critical behavior and space-time scaling. Topics include: self-repellent polymers, self-attracting polymers, polymers interacting with interfaces, charged polymers, copolymers near linear or random selective interfaces, polymers interacting with random substrate and directed polymers in random environment. Different techniques are exposed, including the method of local times, large deviations, the lace expansion, generating functions, the method of excursions, ergodic theory, partial annealing estimates, coarse-graining techniques and martingales. Thus, this monograph offers a mathematical panorama of polymer chains, which even today holds plenty of challenges.

Author : Vu-Lan Nguyen
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2016
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The thesis focuses on (mostly 1 + 1 dimensional) directed polymers in random media. These are classical and celebrated models in the statistical mechanics of disordered systems and describe a one dimensional interface interacting with a d + 1-dimensional random environment where it is immersed. A very important question is to understand, in the limit where the polymer's length tends to infinity and for a typical realization of the environment, the geometric properties of the polymer: typical transversal displacement of the endpoint and its fluctuations, polymer localization at strong disorder around typical tubes determined by disorder... A strictly related problem of great interest is to study the fluctuations of the free energy. The main focus is on the so-called log-gamma polymer. This model, introduced by Seppalainen, is obtained by making a specific choice for the disorder law: the random variables are inverse Gamma variables. For this specific disorder choice, he proved that the variance of the log of the partition function is of order N"2/3, as expected by KPZ theory. This was refined into a full limit theorem Tracy -Widom type fluctuations) by Corwin, O'Connell, Seppalainen and Zygouras, via an explicit formula for the Laplace transform of a single partition function. It was until now an open problem to compute correlations between partition functions with different end-points and to study the asymptotic distribution of the polymer's endpoint. The present thesis addresses, among others, these two very challenging problems. On the other hand, we consider applications of stochastic orders on the study of directed polymer and disordered systems.

Author : Véronique Gayrard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3319176749

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This volume presents five different methods recently developed to tackle the large scale behavior of highly correlated random systems, such as spin glasses, random polymers, local times and loop soups and random matrices. These methods, presented in a series of lectures delivered within the Jean-Morlet initiative (Spring 2013), play a fundamental role in the current development of probability theory and statistical mechanics. The lectures were: Random Polymers by E. Bolthausen, Spontaneous Replica Symmetry Breaking and Interpolation Methods by F. Guerra, Derrida's Random Energy Models by N. Kistler, Isomorphism Theorems by J. Rosen and Spectral Properties of Wigner Matrices by B. Schlein. This book is the first in a co-edition between the Jean-Morlet Chair at CIRM and the Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics which aims to collect together courses and lectures on cutting-edge subjects given during the term of the Jean-Morlet Chair, as well as new material produced in its wake. It is targeted at researchers, in particular PhD students and postdocs, working in probability theory and statistical physics.

Author : Peter Friz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 303015338X

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This Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th birthday of S.R.S. Varadhan, one of the most influential researchers in probability of the last fifty years, grew out of a workshop held at the Technical University of Berlin, 15–19 August, 2016. This volume contains ten research articles authored by several of Varadhan's former PhD students or close collaborators. The topics of the contributions are more or less closely linked with some of Varadhan's deepest interests over the decades: large deviations, Markov processes, interacting particle systems, motions in random media and homogenization, reaction-diffusion equations, and directed last-passage percolation. The articles present original research on some of the most discussed current questions at the boundary between analysis and probability, with an impact on understanding phenomena in physics. This collection will be of great value to researchers with an interest in models of probability-based statistical mechanics.

Author : Clay Mathematics Institute. Summer School
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821868632

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This volume is a collection of lecture notes for six of the ten courses given in Buzios, Brazil by prominent probabilists at the 2010 Clay Mathematics Institute Summer School, ``Probability and Statistical Physics in Two and More Dimensions'' and at the XIV Brazilian School of Probability. In the past ten to fifteen years, various areas of probability theory related to statistical physics, disordered systems and combinatorics have undergone intensive development. A number of these developments deal with two-dimensional random structures at their critical points, and provide new tools and ways of coping with at least some of the limitations of Conformal Field Theory that had been so successfully developed in the theoretical physics community to understand phase transitions of two-dimensional systems. Included in this selection are detailed accounts of all three foundational courses presented at the Clay school--Schramm-Loewner Evolution and other Conformally Invariant Objects, Noise Sensitivity and Percolation, Scaling Limits of Random Trees and Planar Maps--together with contributions on Fractal and Multifractal properties of SLE and Conformal Invariance of Lattice Models. Finally, the volume concludes with extended articles based on the courses on Random Polymers and Self-Avoiding Walks given at the Brazilian School of Probability during the final week of the school. Together, these notes provide a panoramic, state-of-the-art view of probability theory areas related to statistical physics, disordered systems and combinatorics. Like the lectures themselves, they are oriented towards advanced students and postdocs, but experts should also find much of interest.

Author : Frank Hollander
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 364200332X

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Polymer chains that interact with themselves and/or their environment display a range of physical and chemical phenomena. This text focuses on the mathematical description of some of these phenomena, offering a mathematical panorama of polymer chains.