The transition from a weak-disorder (diffusive phase) to a strong-disorder (localized phase) for directed polymers in a random environment is a well studied phenomenon. In the most common setup, it is established that the phase transition is trivial when the transversal dimension @math equals @math or @math (the diffusive phase is reduced to @math ) while when @math , there is a critical temperature @math which delimits the two phases. The proof of the existence of a diffusive regime for @math is based on a second moment method, and thus relies heavily on the assumption that the variable which encodes the disorder intensity (which in most of the mathematics literature assumes the form @math ), has finite second moment. The aim of this work is to investigate how the presence absence of phase transition may depend on the dimension @math in the case when the disorder variable displays heavier tail. To this end we replace @math by @math where @math is in the domain of attraction of a stable law with parameter @math .
Among other works that deal with heavy tail environments we mention @cite_13 , where in the setup the environment @math is allowed to belong to the domain of attraction of a @math -stable law and it is studied properties of paths trajectories drawn from the polymer measure. In this context there is no free energy so the work is fundamentally different from ours. In @cite_10 , it is studied the influence of the jump distribution on the delocalization-localization transition and the interplay between jump tails, spatial dimension and existence of the delocalized phase, when nearest neighbor walks are replaced by long range jumps. Our results most likely extend to that setup, the criterion for having a weak disorder phase in dimension @math becoming @math where @math is the exponent of the random walk. We also mention @cite_3 as another case where a change in the environment setup (there is: moving from the IID setup to a strong spatial correlation in the environment) modifies the criterion for having no phase transition.
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We give a detailed description of the geometry of single droplet patterns in a non- local isoperimetric problem. In particular we focus on the sharp interface limit of the Ohta- Kawasaki free energy for diblock copolymers, regarded as a paradigm for those energies modeling physical systems characterized by a competition between short and a long-range interactions. Exploiting fine properties of the regularity theory for minimal surfaces, we extend previous partial results in different directions and give robust tools for the geometric analysis of more complex patterns. where u is the order parameter of a two-phases system confined in ⊂ R n , and and m are two nonnegative numerical parameters. The two terms in the energy mimic attractive short-range and repulsive long-range energies between the phases. More precisely the first term is local, it favors minimal interface area and drives the system toward a partition into few pure phases while the second term, involving a Coulomb-like kernel G, is non-local and favor a fine mixing of the phases. A detailed description of the energy is given in § 1. The competition between these two terms is expected to induce the formation of highly regular mesoscopic patterns, whose geometry strongly depends on the choice of the parameters and m (e.g. spherical spots, cylinders, gyroids and lamellae). 0.1. The Ohta-Kawasaki functional for diblock copolymers. The model we consider arises as a simplification of a Ginzburg-Landau functional proposed by Ohta and Kawasaki in their pioneering paper (41) as a possible description of a diblock copolymers' (DBC) system. Even though it is questionable whether such an energy actually describes DBCs (see Choksi and Ren (15), Muratov (39) and Niethammer and Oshita (40)), nevertheless it is a first, and mathematically non-trivial, attempt to capture some of the main features of these systems. For such a reason it deserved over the last twenty years great attention from both the mathematical and the physical We study the directed polymer model in dimension @math when the environment is heavy-tailed, with a decay exponent @math . We give all possible scaling limits of the model in the weak-coupling regime, i.e., when the inverse temperature temperature @math vanishes as the size of the system n goes to infinity. When @math , we show that all possible transversal fluctuations @math can be achieved by tuning properly @math , allowing to interpolate between all super-diffusive scales. Moreover, we determine the scaling limit of the model, answering a conjecture by Dey and Zygouras [cf:DZ] - we actually identify five different regimes. On the other hand, when @math , we show that there are only two regimes: the transversal fluctuations are either @math or @math . As a key ingredient, we use the Entropy-controlled Last Passage Percolation (E-LPP), introduced in a companion paper [cf:BT_ELPP]. In this paper, we consider directed polymers in random environment with long range jumps in discrete space and time. We extend to this case some techniques, results and classifications known in the usual short range case. However, some properties are drastically different when the underlying random walk belongs to the domain of attraction of an @math -stable law. For instance, we construct natural examples of directed polymers in random environment which experience weak disorder in low dimension. This is the second in a series of papers in which we derive a @math -expansion for the two-dimensional non-local Ginzburg-Landau energy with Coulomb repulsion known as the Ohta-Kawasaki model in connection with diblock copolymer systems. In this model, two phases appear, which interact via a nonlocal Coulomb type energy. Here we focus on the sharp interface version of this energy in the regime where one of the phases has very small volume fraction, thus creating small "droplets" of the minority phase in a "sea" of the majority phase. In our previous paper, we computed the @math -limit of the leading order energy, which yields the averaged behavior for almost minimizers, namely that the density of droplets should be uniform. Here we go to the next order and derive a next order @math -limit energy, which is exactly the Coulombian renormalized energy obtained by Sandier and Serfaty as a limiting interaction energy for vortices in the magnetic Ginzburg-Landau model. The derivation is based on the abstract scheme of Sandier-Serfaty that serves to obtain lower bounds for 2-scale energies and express them through some probabilities on patterns via the multiparameter ergodic theorem. Without thus appealing to the Euler-Lagrange equation, we establish for all configurations which have "almost minimal energy" the asymptotic roundness and radius of the droplets, and the fact that they asymptotically shrink to points whose arrangement minimizes the renormalized energy in some averaged sense. Via a kind of @math -equivalence, the obtained results also yield an expansion of the minimal energy for the original Ohta-Kawasaki energy. This leads to expecting to see triangular lattices of droplets as energy minimizers.