Quenched Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments and Random Potentials
Speaker:
Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah
Date and Time:
Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 3:30pm to 4:15pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We prove a process-level large deviation principle for quenched random walk in random environment subject to a random potential. In particular, both quenched random walk in random environment and quenched polymers in a random potential are covered. The walk lives on a square lattice of arbitrary dimension and has an arbitrary finite set of admissible steps. The restriction needed is on the moment of the logarithm of the transition probability and the potential, in relation to the degree of mixing of the ergodic environment. The rate function is an entropy and two variational formulas are given for the free energy.