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We introduce the Harris criterion and we provide two heuristic arguments in favor of this criterion. In particular we introduce the notion of relevant and irrelevant disorder. We then prove that disorder is irrelevant when the inter-arrival exponent α is smaller than 1 ∕ 2 and β is not too large.
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Giacomin, G. (2011). Irrelevant Disorder Estimates. In: Disorder and Critical Phenomena Through Basic Probability Models. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21156-0_4
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