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Estimates on path delocalization for copolymers at selective interfaces

  • Giambattista Giacomin1 &
  • Fabio Lucio Toninelli2,3 

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Starting from the simple symmetric random walk {S n } n , we introduce a new process whose path measure is weighted by a factor exp with α,h≥0, {W n } n a typical realization of an IID process and N a positive integer. We are looking for results in the large N limit. This factor favors S n >0 if W n +h>0 and S n <0 if W n +h<0. The process can be interpreted as a model for a random heterogeneous polymer in the proximity of an interface separating two selective solvents. It has been shown [6] that this model undergoes a (de)localization transition: more precisely there exists a continuous increasing function λ↦h c (λ) such that if h<h c (λ) then the model is localized while it is delocalized if h≥h c (λ). However, localization and delocalization were not given in terms of path properties, but in a free energy sense. Later on it has been shown that free energy localization does indeed correspond to a (strong) form of path localization [3]. On the other hand, only weak results on the delocalized regime have been known so far.

We present a method, based on concentration bounds on suitably restricted partition functions, that yields much stronger results on the path behavior in the interior of the delocalized region, that is for h>h c (λ). In particular we prove that, in a suitable sense, one cannot expect more than O( log N) visits of the walk to the lower half plane. The previously known bound was o(N). Stronger O(1)–type results are obtained deep inside the delocalized region.

The same approach is also helpful for a different type of question: we prove in fact that the limit as α tends to zero of h c (λ)/λ exists and it is independent of the law of ω1, at least when the random variable ω1 is bounded or it is Gaussian. This is achieved by interpolating between this class of variables and the particular case of ω1 taking values ±1 with probability 1/2, treated in [6].

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  1. Laboratoire de Probabilités de P 6 & 7 (CNRS U.M.R. 7599), Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot, U.F.R. Mathematiques, Case 7012, 2 place Jussieu, 75251, Paris cedex 05, France

    Giambattista Giacomin

  2. Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Fabio Lucio Toninelli

  3. Laboratoire de Physique, UMR-CNRS 5672, ENS Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Fabio Lucio Toninelli

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Giacomin, G., Toninelli, F. Estimates on path delocalization for copolymers at selective interfaces. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 133, 464–482 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-005-0439-2

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  • Received: 03 August 2004

  • Revised: 12 January 2005

  • Published: 03 May 2005

  • Issue Date: December 2005

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-005-0439-2

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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)

  • 60K35
  • 82B41
  • 82B44

Keywords

  • Copolymers
  • Directed Polymers
  • Delocalization Transition
  • Concentration inequalities
  • Interpolation techniques
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