Four-dimensional weakly self-avoiding walk with contact self-attraction

Abstract

We consider the critical behaviour of the continuous-time weakly self-avoiding walk with contact self-attraction on ${\mathbb{Z}}^4$, for sufficiently small attraction. We prove that the susceptibility and correlation length of order $p$ (for any $p>0$) have logarithmic corrections to mean field scaling, and that the critical two-point function is asymptotic to a multiple of $|x{|}^{-2}$. This shows that small contact self-attraction results in the same critical behaviour as no contact self-attraction; a collapse transition is predicted for larger self-attraction. The proof uses a supersymmetric representation of the two-point function, and is based on a rigorous renormalisation group method that has been used to prove the same results for the weakly self-avoiding walk, without self-attraction.

36 pages, to appear in Journal of Statistical Physics

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