TASEP and generalizations: method for exact solution

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Abstract: The explicit biorthogonalization method, developed in [arXiv:1701.00018] for continuous time TASEP, is generalized to a broad class of determinantal measures which describe the evolution of several interacting particle systems in the KPZ universality class. The method is applied to sequential and parallel update versions of each of the four variants of discrete time TASEP (with Bernoulli and geometric jumps, and with block and push dynamics) which have determinantal transition probabilities; to continuous time PushASEP; and to a version of TASEP with generalized update. In all cases, multipoint distribution functions are expressed in terms of a Fredholm determinant with an explicit kernel involving hitting times of certain random walks to a curve defined by the initial data of the system. The method is further applied to systems of interacting caterpillars, an extension of the discrete time TASEP models which generalizes sequential and parallel updates.


In this interesting paper, the authors develop a general framework for obtaining Fredholm determinant formulae, with explicit kernels, for the finite dimensional distributions of several models of interacting particle systems, starting from any initial condition. This generalises the authors' previous work (with \textit{J. Quastel} [Ann. Probab. 48, No. 5, 2344--2358 (2020; Zbl 1456.60263)]) where such an explicit formula was obtained for TASEP. In that work asymptotic analysis of the formula for TASEP was used to construct the KPZ fixed point, a universal object in the KPZ universality class. The formulae obtained for the broad class of models in the paper under review have a similar structure to the one for TASEP. Their asymptotic study is an interesting problem which is still open at the time of writing of this review.



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