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KPZ statistics of second class particles in ASEP via mixing

Probability 2020-06-24 v3

Abstract

We consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process on Z\mathbb{Z} with a single second class particle initially at the origin. The first class particles form two rarefaction fans which come together at the origin, where the large time density jumps from 00 to 11. We are interested in X(t)X(t), the position of the second class particle at time tt. We show that, under the KPZ 1/31/3 scaling, X(t)X(t) is asymptotically distributed as the difference of two independent, GUE\mathrm{GUE}-distributed random variables.The key part of the proof is to show that X(t)X(t) equals, up to a negligible term, the difference of a random number of holes and particles, with the randomness built up by ASEP itself. This provides a KPZ analogue to the 1994 result of Ferrari and Fontes \cite{FF94b}, where this randomness comes from the initial data and leads to Gaussian limit laws.

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@article{arxiv.1911.09426,
  title  = {KPZ statistics of second class particles in ASEP via mixing},
  author = {Peter Nejjar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.09426},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

V3: A few minor typos corrected. Accepted for publication in Communications in Mathematical Physics