We consider directed polymers in a random environment. Under some mild assumptions on the environment, we prove equivalence between the decay rate of the partition function and some natural localization properties of the path; some quantitative estimates of the decay of the partition function in one or two dimensions, or at sufficiently low temperature; and the existence of quenched free energy.In particular, we generalize to general environments the results recently obtained by Carmona and Hu for a Gaussian environment. Our approach is based on martingale decomposition and martingale analysis. It leads to a natural, asymptotic relation between the partition function, and the probability that two polymers in the same environment, but otherwise independent, end up at the same point.
The paper is concerned with the comparison of two solutions for a one-dimensional stochastic partial differential equation. Noting that support compactness of solutions propagates with passage of time, we define the SCP property and show that the SCP property and the strong positivity are two contrasting properties of solutions for one-dimensional SPDEs, which are due to degeneracy of the noise-term coefficient
We consider the asymptotic almost sure behavior of the solution of the equationwhere {Y x : x ∈ Z d } is a field of independent Lévy processes and is the discrete Laplacian.
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