Scaling limit for line ensembles of random walks with geometric area tilts

DOI10.1214/23-EJP1026arXiv2302.12817OpenAlexW4388013023MaRDI QIDQ6136783FDOQ6136783

Publication date: 17 January 2024

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

Abstract: We consider line ensembles of non-intersecting random walks constrained by a hard wall, each tilted by the area underneath it with geometrically growing pre-factors

m a t h f r a k b^{i}

where

m a t h f r a k b > 1

. This is a model for the level lines of the

(2 + 1)

D SOS model above a hard wall, which itself mimics the low-temperature 3D Ising interface. A similar model with

m a t h f r a k b = 1

and a fixed number of curves was studied by Ioffe, Velenik, and Wachtel (2018), who derived a scaling limit as the time interval

[- N, N]

tends to infinity. Line ensembles of Brownian bridges with geometric area tilts (

m a t h f r a k b > 1

) were studied by Caputo, Ioffe, and Wachtel (2019), and later by Dembo, Lubetzky, and Zeitouni (2022). Their results show that as the time interval and the number of curves

n

tend to infinity, the top

k

paths converge to a limiting measure

m u

. In this paper we address the open problem of proving existence of a scaling limit for random walk ensembles with geometric area tilts. We prove that with mild assumptions on the jump distribution, under suitable scaling the top