Current fluctuations of the stationary ASEP and six-vertex model

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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.


In this paper, the author considers an asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP). Note that the ASEP is a particle system on \(\mathbb Z\), such that at most one particle occupies any site. Particles may jump to the left with exponential rate \(L\); jump to the right with exponential rate \(R\) and the ones that jump to occupied locations are suppressed and assumed that \(R>L\). The ASEP starts with the stationary initial data, i.e., from the Bernoulli product measure: each site of \(\mathbb Z\) is occupied independently with a given probability. By the condition \(R>L\), the particles in the ASEP on average jump in the right direction. This jumping is captured by a natural statistic called the current. The author is interested in the behavior of the particle system, through the behavior of its current, when time \(T\to +\infty\). The KPZ (Kardar-Parisi-Zhang) universality predicts that the fluctuations of the current of the ASEP are on scale \(T^{1/3}\), and moreover the distribution of these fluctuations becomes the Baik-Rains distribution as \(T\to +\infty\). The author proves these universality predictions for the ASEP. Moreover, the author is interested to integrability and fluctuations of the translation invariant stochastic six-vertex model. This is discrete time model which is related to the ASEP. A relation between translation invariant measures for the stochastic six-vertex model to Gibbs measures of the symmetric six-vertex model with arbitrary vertex weights is established.



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