From Directed Polymers in Spatial-correlated Environment to Stochastic Heat Equations Driven by Fractional Noise in 1 + 1 Dimensions

Abstract: We consider the limit behavior of partition function of directed polymers in random environment represented by linear model instead of a family of i.i.d.variables in $1+1$ dimensions. Under the assumption that the correlation decays algebraically, using the method developed in [Ann. Probab., 42(3):1212-1256, 2014], under a new scaling we show the scaled partition function as a process defined on $[0,1]\times\RR$, converges weakly to the solution to some stochastic heat equations driven by fractional Brownian field. The Hurst parameter is determined by the correlation exponent of the random environment. Here multiple It^{o} integral with respect to fractional Gaussian field and spectral representation of stationary process are heavily involved.