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On the average of the Airy process and its time reversal

Probability 2013-11-21 v2

Abstract

We show that the supremum of the average of the Airy process and its time reversal minus a parabola is distributed as the maximum of two independent GUE Tracy-Widom random variables. The proof is obtained by considering a directed last passage percolation model with a rotational symmetry in two different ways. We also review other known identities between the Airy process and the Tracy-Widom distributions.

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@article{arxiv.1308.1070,
  title  = {On the average of the Airy process and its time reversal},
  author = {Jinho Baik and Zhipeng Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1070},
  year   = {2013}
}

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