Brownian motion in attenuated or renormalized inverse-square Poisson potential

We consider the parabolic Anderson problem with random potentials having inverse-square singularities around the points of a standard Poisson point process in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 3$. The potentials we consider are obtained via superposition of translations over the points of the Poisson point process of a kernel $\mathfrak{K}$ behaving as $\mathfrak{K}(x) \approx \theta |x|^{-2}$ near the origin, where $\theta \in (0,(d-2)^2/16]$. In order to make sense of the corresponding path integrals, we require the potential to be either attenuated (meaning that $\mathfrak{K}$ is integrable at infinity) or, when $d=3$, renormalized, as introduced by Chen and Kulik in [8]. Our main results include existence and large-time asymptotics of non-negative solutions via Feynman-Kac representation. In particular, we settle for the renormalized potential in $d=3$ the problem with critical parameter $\theta = 1/16$, left open by Chen and Rosinski in [arXiv:1103.5717].Comment: 36 page

Gluon polarization in the nucleon demystified

Recently, X. Chen et al. proposed a new approach to the gauge invariant decomposition of the nucleon spin into helicity and orbital parts. The key ingredient in their construction is the separation of the gauge field into `physical' and `pure gauge' parts. We suggest a simple separation scheme and show that the resulting gluon helicity coincides with the first moment of the conventional polarized gluon distribution measurable in high energy experiments.Comment: 6 page

Large deviations for self-intersection local times of stable random walks

Let $(X_t,t\geq 0)$ be a random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. Let $l_T(x)= \int_0^T \delta_x(X_s)ds$ the local time at the state $x$ and $I_T= \sum\limits_{x\in\mathbb{Z}^d} l_T(x)^q$ the q-fold self-intersection local time (SILT). In \cite{Castell} Castell proves a large deviations principle for the SILT of the simple random walk in the critical case $q(d-2)=d$. In the supercritical case $q(d-2)>d$, Chen and M\"orters obtain in \cite{ChenMorters} a large deviations principle for the intersection of $q$ independent random walks, and Asselah obtains in \cite{Asselah5} a large deviations principle for the SILT with $q=2$. We extend these results to an $\alpha$-stable process (i.e. $\alpha\in]0,2]$) in the case where $q(d-\alpha)\geq d$.Comment: 22 page