Speaker: 

Professor Michael Cranston

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - 11:00am

Location: 

MSTB 254

We present a continuation pf work with Molchanov on the behavior of "random walk" oaths under a Gibbs measure which introduces an attraction to the origin with strength depending on a parameter b.
There is a phase transition from a transient or diffusive phase to a globular phase and we discuss behavior at and around the critical value of the parameter .