Sub-ballisticity of self-repelling polymers in Z^d

Abstract

In this article, we prove sub-ballisticity for a class of self-repelling polymers inZ^d. Self-repelling polymers are a two-way generalization of the model of self-avoiding walks, for which the sub-ballisticity was proved by H. Duminil-Copin and A. Hammond. Namely, we consider an arbitrary finite symmetric distribution of steps and a more flexible penalization for self-intersections than in the self-avoiding walks model.