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Limiting directions for random walks in classical affine Weyl groups

Probability 2021-12-09 v2 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics Group Theory math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

Let WW be a finite Weyl group and W~\widetilde W the corresponding affine Weyl group. A random element of W~\widetilde W can be obtained as a reduced random walk on the alcoves of W~\widetilde W. By a theorem of Lam (Ann. Prob. 2015), such a walk almost surely approaches one of W|W| many directions. We compute these directions when WW is BnB_n, CnC_n and DnD_n and the random walk is weighted by Kac and dual Kac labels. This settles Lam's questions for types BB and CC in the affirmative and for type DD in the negative. The main tool is a combinatorial two row model for a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process called the DD^*-TASEP, with four parameters. By specializing the parameters in different ways, we obtain TASEPs for each of the Weyl groups mentioned above. Computing certain correlations in these TASEPs gives the desired limiting directions.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13399,
  title  = {Limiting directions for random walks in classical affine Weyl groups},
  author = {Erik Aas and Arvind Ayyer and Svante Linusson and Samu Potka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13399},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

45 pages, 9 figures, minor improvements, final version

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