Fluctuations for the Toda lattice
Abstract
In this paper we consider the Toda lattice at thermal equilibrium, meaning that its variables and are independent Gaussian and Gamma random variables, respectively. We show under diffusive scaling that the space-time fluctuations for the model's currents converge to an explicit Gaussian limit. As consequences, we deduce, (i) the scaling limit for the trajectory of a single particle is a Brownian motion; (ii) space-time two-point correlation functions for the model decay inversely with time, with explicit scaling distributions predicted by Doyon (SciPost Phys. 5 (2018), 054) and Spohn (J. Phys. A 53 (2020), 265004). Our starting point is the notion that the Toda lattice can be thought of as a dense collection of many ``quasi-particles'' that interact through scattering. The core of our work is to establish that the full joint scaling limit of the fluctuations for these quasi-particles is given by a Gaussian process, called a dressed L\'evy-Chentsov field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.14346,
title = {Fluctuations for the Toda lattice},
author = {Amol Aggarwal and Matthew Nicoletti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.14346},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
v2: Revised introduction and added appendix E; corrected typos and references