Curve separation in supercritical half-space last passage percolation
Abstract
We study line ensembles arising naturally in symmetrized/half-space geometric last passage percolation (LPP) on the square. The weights of the model are geometrically distributed with parameter off the diagonal and on the diagonal, where and . In the supercritical regime , we show that the ensembles undergo a phase transition: the top curve separates from the rest and converges to a Brownian motion under fluctuations and spatial scaling, while the remaining curves converge to the Airy line ensemble under fluctuations and spatial scaling. Our analysis relies on a distributional identity between half-space LPP and the Pfaffian Schur process. The latter exhibits two key structures: (1) a Pfaffian point process, which we use to establish finite-dimensional convergence of the ensembles, and (2) a Gibbsian line ensemble, which we use to extend convergence uniformly over compact sets.
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@article{arxiv.2510.07508,
title = {Curve separation in supercritical half-space last passage percolation},
author = {Evgeni Dimitrov and Zhengye Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.07508},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
55 pages, 5 figures. V2. Fixed some typos and expanded the introduction