On the exponent governing the correlation decay of the Airy₁ process

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04544-1arXiv2206.08571MaRDI QIDQ6402340FDOQ6402340

Authors: Riddhipratim Basu, Ofer Busani, Patrik Lino Ferrari

Publication date: 17 June 2022

Abstract: We study the decay of the covariance of the Airy

_{1}

process,

m a t h c a l A_{1}

, a stationary stochastic process on

m a t h b b R

that arises as a universal scaling limit in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. We show that the decay is super-exponential and determine the leading order term in the exponent by showing that

e x t r m C o v (m a t h c a l A_{1} (0), m a t h c a l A_{1} (u)) = e^{- (f r a c 43 + o (1)) u^{3}}

as

u o i n f t y

. The proof employs a combination of probabilistic techniques and integrable probability estimates. The upper bound uses the connection of

m a t h c a l A_{1}

to planar exponential last passage percolation and several new results on the geometry of point-to-line geodesics in the latter model which are of independent interest; while the lower bound is primarily analytic, using the Fredholm determinant expressions for the two point function of the Airy

_{1}

process together with the FKG inequality.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82Bxx) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82Cxx) Special processes (60Kxx)

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