KPZ statistics of second class particles in ASEP via mixing
Abstract
We consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process on 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 to . We are interested in , the position of the second class particle at time . We show that, under the KPZ scaling, is asymptotically distributed as the difference of two independent, -distributed random variables.The key part of the proof is to show that 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