Anisotropic growth of random surfaces in 2+1 dimensions

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Abstract: We construct a family of stochastic growth models in 2+1 dimensions, that belong to the anisotropic KPZ class. Appropriate projections of these models yield 1+1 dimensional growth models in the KPZ class and random tiling models. We show that correlation functions associated to our models have determinantal structure, and we study large time asymptotics for one of the models. The main asymptotic results are: (1) The growing surface has a limit shape that consists of facets interpolated by a curved piece. (2) The one-point fluctuations of the height function in the curved part are asymptotically normal with variance of order ln(t) for time t>>1. (3) There is a map of the (2+1)-dimensional space-time to the upper half-plane H such that on space-like submanifolds the multi-point fluctuations of the height function are asymptotically equal to those of the pullback of the Gaussian free (massless) field on H.


On the one hand we have random growth of one-dimensional interfaces, and on the other hand we have random surfaces arising from dimers on planar bipartite graphs. These two surfaces exhibit some similarities in their asymptotic properties, and to put this feature clearly in evidence, the authors herein construct a class of two-dimensional random growth models of which different projections provide the surfaces above. The key of the approach is a two-dimensional Markov chain. The geometry of the problem is carefully described, and the asymptotic analysis is carried on by means of correlation functions which have determinantal structure.



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