Asymptotic behavior of the gyration radius for long-range self-avoiding walk and long-range oriented percolation

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the asymptotic behavior of the gyration radius for long-range self-avoiding walks, random walks, and oriented percolation, confirming conjectures about their large-time scaling in high dimensions.

Contribution

It proves the large-time asymptotics of the gyration radius for these models, confirming previous conjectures for long-range self-avoiding walk and oriented percolation.

Findings

Gyration radius scales as a power law in time for large t.

Results hold in dimensions above the upper-critical dimension.

Confirms conjectured asymptotic behaviors for long-range models.

Abstract

We consider random walk and self-avoiding walk whose 1-step distribution is given by $D$, and oriented percolation whose bond-occupation probability is proportional to $D$. Suppose that $D(x)$ decays as $|x|^{-d-\alpha}$ with $\alpha>0$. For random walk in any dimension $d$ and for self-avoiding walk and critical/subcritical oriented percolation above the common upper-critical dimension $d_{\mathrm{c}}\equiv2(\alpha\wedge2)$, we prove large-$t$ asymptotics of the gyration radius, which is the average end-to-end distance of random walk/self-avoiding walk of length $t$ or the average spatial size of an oriented percolation cluster at time $t$. This proves the conjecture for long-range self-avoiding walk in [Ann. Inst. H. Poincar\'{e} Probab. Statist. (2010), to appear] and for long-range oriented percolation in [Probab. Theory Related Fields 142 (2008) 151--188] and [Probab. Theory Related Fields 145 (2009) 435--458].