Flats, spikes and crevices: the evolving shape of the inhomogeneous corner growth model

DOI10.1214/21-EJP595zbMATH Open1491.60175arXiv1908.09319OpenAlexW3159775226MaRDI QIDQ2042853FDOQ2042853

Authors: Elnur Emrah, Christopher Janjigian, Timo Seppäläinen 

Publication date: 21 July 2021

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the macroscopic evolution of the growing cluster in the exactly solvable corner growth model with independent exponentially distributed waiting times. The rates of the exponentials are given by an addivitely separable function of the site coordinates. When computing the growth process (last-passage times) at each site, the horizontal and vertical additive components of the rates are allowed to also vary respectively with the column and row number of that site. This setting includes several models of interest from the literature as special cases. Our main result provides simple explicit variational formulas for the a.s. first-order asymptotics of the growth process under a decay condition on the rates. Formulas of similar flavor were conjectured in arXiv:math/0004082, which we also establish. Subject to further mild conditions, we prove the existence of the limit shape and describe it explicitly. We observe that the boundary of the limit shape can develop flat segments adjacent to the axes and spikes along the axes. Furthermore, we record the formation of persistent macroscopic spikes and crevices in the cluster that are nonetheless not visible in the limit shape. As an application of the results for the growth process, we compute the flux function and limiting particle profile for the TASEP with the step initial condition and disorder in the jump rates of particles and holes. Our methodology is based on concentration bounds and estimating the boundary exit probabilities of the geodesics in the increment-stationary version of the model, with the only input from integrable probability being the distributional invariance of the last-passage times under permutations of columns and rows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09319

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zbMATH Keywords

corner growth modellast-passage percolationlimit shapes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37)

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