{ "id": "1806.04220", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-06-11T20:10:16.000Z", "updated": "2018-06-11T20:10:16.000Z", "title": "Proof of the path localization conjecture for directed polymers", "authors": [ "Sourav Chatterjee" ], "comment": "16 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "math.PR", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "It is a well-known open problem in the literature on random polymers to show that a directed polymer in random environment localizes around a favorite path at low temperature. A precise statement of this conjecture is formulated and proved in this article.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-06-11T20:10:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60K37", "82B44", "82D60", "60G17" ], "keywords": [ "path localization conjecture", "directed polymer", "well-known open problem", "random environment localizes", "random polymers" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }