Scaling limits for non-intersecting polymers and Whittaker measures

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DOI10.1007/S10955-020-02534-YzbMATH Open1447.60141arXiv1909.03219OpenAlexW3101607118MaRDI QIDQ2175122FDOQ2175122


Authors: Samuel Johnston, Neil O'Connell Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 April 2020

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

Abstract: We study the partition functions associated with non-intersecting polymers in a random environment. By considering paths in series and in parallel, the partition functions carry natural notions of subadditivity, allowing the effective study of their asymptotics. For a certain choice of random environment, the geometric RSK correspondence provides an explicit representation of the partition functions in terms of a stochastic interface. Formally this leads to a variational description of the macroscopic behaviour of the interface and hence the free energy of the associated non-intersecting polymer model. At zero temperature we relate this variational description to the Marchenko-Pastur distribution, and give a new derivation of the surface tension of the bead model.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03219




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