Prof. Chiranjib Mukherjee (Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, University of Münster)

According to a conjecture by Landau-Pekar (1948) and by Spohn (1986), the effective mass of the Fröhlich Polaron should diverge in the strong coupling limit like a quartic power of the coupling constant. In a recent joint with R. Bazaes, M. Sellke and S.R.S. Varadhan, we prove this conjecture.