Current fluctuations of the stationary ASEP and six-vertex model

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Publication:1700520

DOI10.1215/00127094-2017-0029zbMATH Open1403.60081arXiv1608.04726OpenAlexW2509099278MaRDI QIDQ1700520FDOQ1700520


Authors: Amol Aggarwal Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 March 2018

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our results in this paper are two-fold. First, we consider current fluctuations of the stationary asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP), run for some long time T, and show that they are of order T1/3 along a characteristic line. Upon scaling by T1/3, we establish that these fluctuations converge to the long-time height fluctuations of the stationary KPZ equation, that is, to the Baik-Rains distribution. This result has long been predicted under the context of KPZ universality and in particular extends upon a number of results in the field, including the work of Ferrari and Spohn in 2005 (who established the same result for the TASEP), and the work of Balazs and Seppalainen in 2010 (who established the T1/3 scaling for the general ASEP). Second, we introduce a class of translation-invariant Gibbs measures that characterizes a one-parameter family of slopes for an arbitrary ferroelectric, symmetric six-vertex model. This family of slopes corresponds to what is known as the conical singularity (or tricritical point) in the free energy profile for the ferroelectric six-vertex model. We consider fluctuations of the height function of this model on a large grid of size T and show that they too are of order T1/3 along a certain characteristic line; this confirms a prediction of Bukman and Shore from 1995 stating that the ferroelectric six-vertex model should exhibit KPZ growth at the conical singularity. Upon scaling the height fluctuations by T1/3, we again recover the Baik-Rains distribution in the large T limit. Recasting this statement in terms of the (asymmetric) stochastic six-vertex model confirms a prediction of Gwa and Spohn from 1992.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04726




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