%0 Journal Article %T Shape transition under excess self-intersections for transient random walk %A Amine Asselah %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We reveal a shape transition for a transient simple random walk forced to realize an excess $q$-norm of the local times, as the parameter $q$ crosses the value $q_c(d)=\frac{d}{d-2}$. Also, as an application of our approach, we establish a central limit theorem for the $q$-norm of the local times in dimension 4 or more. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2616v3