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Pinning model with heavy tailed disorder

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  • Torri, Niccolò

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We study the pinning model, which describes the behavior of a Markov chain interacting with a distinguished state. The interaction depends on an external source of randomness, called disorder. Inspired by Auffinger and Louidor (2011) and Hambly and Martin (2007), we consider the case when the disorder is heavy-tailed, while the return times of the Markov chain are stretched-exponential. We prove that the set of times at which the Markov chain visits the distinguished state, suitably rescaled, has a limit in distribution. Moreover there exists a random threshold below which this limit is trivial. Finally we complete a result of Auffinger and Louidor (2011) on the directed polymer in a random environment.

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  • Torri, Niccolò, 2016. "Pinning model with heavy tailed disorder," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 126(2), pages 542-571.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:126:y:2016:i:2:p:542-571
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2015.09.010
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