Rooted Gibbs-DLR Measures in Planar Directed Polymers

Abstract

We study rooted Gibbs-DLR measures in the directed polymer model on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ with an ergodic disorder distribution which satisfies an additional mild hypothesis. We prove that the set of extremal rooted Gibbs-DLR measures is closed and totally ordered, characterize extremality in terms of path coalescence, and show that each fully supported extremal rooted Gibbs measure canonically generates a globally consistent and coalescing family of extremal rooted Gibbs measures indexed by all lattice sites. These families are, moreover, totally ordered. Building on this structure, we prove strong existence and strong uniqueness of the associated Busemann process, together with an $L^1$ continuity theorem for the shift-covariant Busemann cocycles which is joint in the inverse temperature, the tilt parameter, and the random environment. This yields, as a corollary, in-probability continuity of the generated extremal Gibbs measures corresponding to directions of differentiability under bounded i.i.d. perturbations of the weights. In positive temperature, it shows in-probability convergence of the generated extremal Gibbs measures. At zero temperature, it also yields quenched subsequential large deviation principles for the corresponding positive-temperature rooted Gibbs-DLR measures on path space. The rate functions are determined by a zero-temperature Busemann cocycle and vanish precisely on the infinite geodesics generated by that cocycle.

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“sts. The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Data availability. No datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study. Use of AI-assistance. The authors used OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex large language models as writing tools during the preparation of this manuscript. This use consisted of assistance with proofreading; wording, proof organization, and notation suggestions; LaTeX editing and typesetting help; reference suggestions; and identifyi”

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