Scale invariance of the PNG droplet and the Airy process

DOI10.1023/A:1019791415147zbMATH Open1025.82010arXivmath/0105240OpenAlexW1677703250MaRDI QIDQ1397376FDOQ1397376

Michael Prähofer, Herbert Spohn

Publication date: 6 August 2003

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish that the static height fluctuations of a particular growth model, the PNG droplet, converges upon proper rescaling to a limit process, which we call the Airy process A(y). The Airy process is stationary, it has continuous sample paths, its single "time" (fixed y) distribution is the Tracy-Widom distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a GUE random matrix, and the Airy process has a slow decay of correlations as y^(-2). Roughly the Airy process describes the last line of Dyson's Brownian motion model for random matrices. Our construction uses a multi-layer version of the PNG model, which can be analyzed through fermionic techniques. Specializing our result to a fixed value of y, one reobtains the celebrated result of Baik, Deift, and Johansson on the length of the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105240

zbMATH Keywords

Airy processlongest increasing subsequencespolynuclear growth modelfree fermion techniques

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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