Periodic KPZ fixed point with general initial conditions
Abstract
We consider the periodic totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with a general initial condition that properly approximates a periodic upper-semicontinuous function. We find the large time limit of the rescaled space-time multipoint distribution of the height function in the relaxation time scale. The limiting functions form a consistent family of finite-dimensional distributions; thus, they define the periodic KPZ fixed point with a general upper-semicontinuous initial condition. The main technical novelty of the paper is a hitting expectation representation of the energy function and the characteristic function in the finite-time multipoint distribution formula obtained in arXiv:1912.10143. The representation of the characteristic function is partly inspired by the work of arXiv:1701.00018, arXiv:2509.03246, while the representation of the energy function is based on an extensive guess-and-check exploration.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.01964,
title = {Periodic KPZ fixed point with general initial conditions},
author = {Jinho Baik and Yuchen Liao and Zhipeng Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01964},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
52 pages, 2 figures. Comments welcome!