## Electronic Journal of Probability

### An almost sure CLT for stretched polymers

#### Abstract

We prove an almost sure central limit theorem (CLT) for spatial  extension of stretched (meaning subject to a non-zero pulling force) polymers at very weak disorder in all dimensions $d+1\geq 4$.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 18 (2013), paper no. 97, 20 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 11 November 2013
First available in Project Euclid: 4 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1465064322

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v18-2231

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3141798

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1286.60026

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#### Citation

Ioffe, Dmitry; Velenik, Yvan. An almost sure CLT for stretched polymers. Electron. J. Probab. 18 (2013), paper no. 97, 20 pp. doi:10.1214/EJP.v18-2231. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1465064322

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