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Random surface growth with a wall and Plancherel measures for O(infinity)

Representation Theory 2011-03-08 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We consider a Markov evolution of lozenge tilings of a quarter-plane and study its asymptotics at large times. One of the boundary rays serves as a reflecting wall. We observe frozen and liquid regions, prove convergence of the local correlations to translation-invariant Gibbs measures in the liquid region, and obtain new discrete Jacobi and symmetric Pearcey determinantal point processes near the wall. The model can be viewed as the one-parameter family of Plancherel measures for the infinite-dimensional orthogonal group, and we use this interpretation to derive the determinantal formula for the correlation functions at any finite time moment.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2607,
  title  = {Random surface growth with a wall and Plancherel measures for O(infinity)},
  author = {Alexei Borodin and Jeffrey Kuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2607},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

60 pages, corrected proof of theorem 5.2 (results unchanged), updated references

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