Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
2009-07-29
Annals of Probability 2010, Vol. 38, No. 6, 2322-2378
Mathematics
Probability
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP546 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of
Scientific paper
10.1214/10-AOP546
A copolymer is a chain of repetitive units (monomers) that are almost identical, but they differ in their degree of affinity for certain solvents. This difference leads to striking phenomena when the polymer fluctuates in a nonhomogeneous medium, for example, made of two solvents separated by an interface. One may observe, for instance, the localization of the polymer at the interface between the two solvents. A discrete model of such system, based on the simple symmetric random walk on $\mathbb {Z}$, has been investigated in [Bolthausen and den Hollander, Ann. Probab. 25 (1997), 1334-1366], notably in the weak polymer-solvent coupling limit, where the convergence of the discrete model toward a continuum model, based on Brownian motion, has been established. This result is remarkable because it strongly suggests a universal feature of copolymer models. In this work, we prove that this is indeed the case. More precisely, we determine the weak coupling limit for a general class of discrete copolymer models, obtaining as limits a one-parameter [$\alpha \in(0,1)$] family of continuum models, based on $\alpha$-stable regenerative sets.
Caravenna Francesco
Giacomin Giambattista
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