Low-temperature localization of directed polymers

Low-temperature localization of directed polymers

Probability Seminar
Feb 21, 2018, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Erik Bates, Stanford University
On the d-dimensional integer lattice, directed polymers are paths of a random walk that have been reweighted according to a random environment that refreshes at each time step. The qualitative behavior of the system is governed by a temperature parameter; if this parameter is small, the environment has little effect, meaning all possible paths are close to equally likely. If the parameter is made...