The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class

DOI10.1142/S2010326311300014zbMATH Open1247.82040arXiv1106.1596OpenAlexW2963868111WikidataQ98024914 ScholiaQ98024914MaRDI QIDQ2893149FDOQ2893149

Authors: Ivan Corwin 

Publication date: 26 June 2012

Published in: Random Matrices: Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Brownian motion is a continuum scaling limit for a wide class of random processes, and there has been great success in developing a theory for its properties (such as distribution functions or regularity) and expanding the breadth of its universality class. Over the past twenty five years a new universality class has emerged to describe a host of important physical and probabilistic models (including one dimensional interface growth processes, interacting particle systems and polymers in random environments) which display characteristic, though unusual, scalings and new statistics. This class is called the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class and underlying it is, again, a continuum object -- a non-linear stochastic partial differential equation -- known as the KPZ equation. The purpose of this survey is to explain the context for, as well as the content of a number of mathematical breakthroughs which have culminated in the derivation of the exact formula for the distribution function of the KPZ equation started with {it narrow wedge} initial data. In particular we emphasize three topics: (1) The approximation of the KPZ equation through the weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process; (2) The derivation of the exact one-point distribution of the solution to the KPZ equation with narrow wedge initial data; (3) Connections with directed polymers in random media. As the purpose of this article is to survey and review, we make precise statements but provide only heuristic arguments with indications of the technical complexities necessary to make such arguments mathematically rigorous.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1596

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zbMATH Keywords

stochastic heat equationstochastic Burgers equationdirected polymersasymmetric exclusion processanomalous fluctuationsrandom growthKardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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