Speaker: 

Professor Nicola Squartini

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 11:00am

Location: 

RH 306

We consider a polymer measure based on random walks which are based on sums of iid stable random variables.
A Gibbs measure is defined which models an attraction to the origin for these walks. A phase transition occurs as the the strength of the attraction to the origin occurs.
We examine various "thermodynamic" quantities and show they are all related to each other in a simple way and exhibit universality.