An almost sure CLT for stretched polymers

Dmitry Ioffe (Technion Haifa)
Yvan Velenik (Université de Genève)

Abstract


We prove an almost sure central limit theorem (CLT) for spatial  extension of stretched (meaning subject to a non-zero pulling force) polymers at very weak disorder in all dimensions $d+1\geq 4$.

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Publication Date: November 11, 2013

DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v18-2231

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