English

Second Class Particle Behaviour in Blocking ASEP

Probability 2026-04-21 v3 Combinatorics Number Theory

Abstract

We consider any fixed dZ>0d\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0} number of second class particles in the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP), constructed via a basic coupling of two ASEPs. We give the joint distribution of the positions of the second class particles and also the probability of there being a second class particle at a given site, under the natural blocking measure for ASEP. In order to find these distributions we use results about the number of particles in half-infinite and finite site ranges of ASEP. Our investigations also lead to probabilistic proofs of well-known combinatorial identities; the Durfee rectangles identity, Euler's identity, and the qq-Binomial Theorem.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.16769,
  title  = {Second Class Particle Behaviour in Blocking ASEP},
  author = {Daniel Adams and Márton Balázs and Jessica Jay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.16769},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

43 pages, 4 figures. Accepted article. New introduction from previous version

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