## Electronic Journal of Probability

### Subgaussian concentration and rates of convergence in directed polymers

#### Abstract

We consider directed random polymers in $(d+1)$ dimensions with nearly gamma i.i.d. disorder.  We study the partition function $Z_{N,\omega}$ and establish exponential concentration of $\log Z_{N,\omega}$ about its mean on the subgaussian scale $\sqrt{N/\log N}$ . This is used to show that $\mathbb{E}[ \log Z_{N,\omega}]$ differs from $N$ times the free energy by an amount which is also subgaussian (i.e. $o(\sqrt{N})$), specifically $O( \sqrt{\frac{N}{\log N}}\log \log N)$

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 18 (2013), paper no. 5, 28 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 11 January 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 4 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1465064230

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v18-2005

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3024099

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1281.82036

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#### Citation

Alexander, Kenneth; Zygouras, Nikolaos. Subgaussian concentration and rates of convergence in directed polymers. Electron. J. Probab. 18 (2013), paper no. 5, 28 pp. doi:10.1214/EJP.v18-2005. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1465064230

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