Speaker:
Professor Timo Seppalainen
Institution:
University of Wisconsin
Time:
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 2:00pm
Location:
MSTB 114
We study a 1+1-dimensional directed polymer in a random
environment on the integer lattice with log-gamma distributed
weights and both endpoints of the polymer path fixed.
We show that under appropriate boundary conditions
the fluctuation exponents for the free energy and
the polymer path take the values conjectured in the
theoretical physics literature. Without the boundary
we get the conjectured upped bounds on the exponents.