An Identity in Distribution Between Full-Space and Half-Space Log-Gamma Polymers

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAC132arXiv2108.08737OpenAlexW3195551703MaRDI QIDQ6114751FDOQ6114751

Authors: Guillaume Barraquand 

Publication date: 15 August 2023

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove an identity in distribution between two kinds of partition functions for the log-gamma directed polymer model: (1) the point-to-point partition function in a quadrant, (2) the point-to-line partition function in an octant. As an application, we prove that the point-to-line free energy of the log-gamma polymer in an octant obeys a phase transition depending on the strength of the noise along the boundary. This transition of (de)pinning by randomness was first predicted in physics by Kardar in 1985 and proved rigorously for zero temperature models by Baik and Rains in 2001. While it is expected to arise universally for models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, this is the first positive temperature model for which this transition can be rigorously established.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08737

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60)

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• Boundary current fluctuations for the half‐space ASEP and six‐vertex model
• The half-space log-gamma polymer in the bound phase
• Matrix Whittaker processes
• Pinning, diffusive fluctuations, and Gaussian limits for half-space directed polymer models

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