High temperature Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model for general spins

Francesco Guerra and Fabio Toninelli have developped a very powerful technique to study the high temperature behaviour of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field spin glass model. They show that this model is asymptoticaly comparable to a linear model. The key ingredient is a clever interpolation technique between the two different Hamiltonians describing the models. This paper contribution to the subject are the following: (1) The replica-symmetric solution holds for general spins, not just $\pm 1$ valued. (2) The proof does not involve cavitation but only first order differential calculus and Gaussian integration by parts

Interacting partially directed self avoiding walk : scaling limits

This paper is dedicated to the investigation of a $1+1$ dimensional self-interacting and partially directed self-avoiding walk, usually referred to by the acronym IPDSAW and introduced in \cite{ZL68} by Zwanzig and Lauritzen to study the collapse transition of an homopolymer dipped in a poor solvant. In \cite{POBG93}, physicists displayed numerical results concerning the typical growth rate of some geometric features of the path as its length $L$ diverges. From this perspective the quantities of interest are the projections of the path onto the horizontal axis (also called horizontal extension) and onto the vertical axis for which it is useful to define the lower and the upper envelopes of the path. With the help of a new random walk representation, we proved in \cite{CNGP13} that the path grows horizontally like $\sqrt{L}$ in its collapsed regime and that, once rescaled by $\sqrt{L}$ vertically and horizontally, its upper and lower envelopes converge to some deterministic Wulff shapes. In the present paper, we bring the geometric investigation of the path several steps further. In the extended regime, we prove a law of large number for the horizontal extension of the polymer rescaled by its total length $L$, we provide a precise asymptotics of the partition function and we show that its lower and upper envelopes, once rescaled in time by $L$ and in space by $\sqrt{L}$, converge to the same Brownian motion. At criticality, we identify the limiting distribution of the horizontal extension rescaled by $L^{2/3}$ and we show that the excess partition function decays as $L^{2/3}$ with an explicit prefactor. In the collapsed regime, we identify the joint limiting distribution of the fluctuations of the upper and lower envelopes around their associated limiting Wulff shapes, rescaled in time by $\sqrt{L}$ and in space by $L^{1/4}$.Comment: 52 pages, 4 figure

Strong disorder implies strong localization for directed polymers in a random environment

In this note we show that in any dimension $d$, the strong disorder property implies the strong localization property. This is established for a continuous time model of directed polymers in a random environment : the parabolic Anderson Model.Comment: Accepted for publication in ALE

The discrete-time parabolic Anderson model with heavy-tailed potential

We consider a discrete-time version of the parabolic Anderson model. This may be described as a model for a directed (1+d)-dimensional polymer interacting with a random potential, which is constant in the deterministic direction and i.i.d. in the d orthogonal directions. The potential at each site is a positive random variable with a polynomial tail at infinity. We show that, as the size of the system diverges, the polymer extremity is localized almost surely at one single point which grows ballistically. We give an explicit characterization of the localization point and of the typical paths of the model.Comment: 32 page