Abstract

In this survey paper we mainly discuss the results contained in two of our recent articles [2] and [5]. Let t≥0 be a continuous-time, symmetric, nearest-neighbour random walk on Zd. For every T > 0 we define the transformed
path measure dPT = (1/ZT ) exp(HT ) dP, where P is the original one and ZT is the appropriate normalizing constant. The Hamiltonian HT imparts the self-attracting
interaction of the paths up to time T. We consider the case where HT is given by a potential function V on Zd with finite support, and the case HT = −NT , where NT denotes the number of points visited by the random walk up to time T. In both cases the typical paths under PT as T →∞ clump together much more than those of the free random walk and give rise to localization phenomena.