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Limiting speed of a second class particle in ASEP

Probability 2019-03-26 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the asymptotic speed of a second class particle in the two-species asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) on Z\mathbb{Z} with each particle belonging either to the first class or the second class. For any fixed non-negative integer LL, we consider the two-species ASEP started from the initial data with all the sites of Z<L\mathbb{Z}_{<-L} occupied by first class particles, all the sites of Z[L,0]\mathbb{Z}_{[-L,0]} occupied by second class particles, and the rest of the sites of Z\mathbb{Z} unoccupied. With these initial conditions, we show that the speed of the leftmost second class particle converges weakly to a distribution supported on a symmetric compact interval ΓR\Gamma\subset \mathbb{R}. Furthermore, the limiting distribution is shown to have the same law as the minimum of L+1L+1 independent random samples drawn uniformly from the interval Γ\Gamma.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09615,
  title  = {Limiting speed of a second class particle in ASEP},
  author = {Promit Ghosal and Axel Saenz and Ethan C. Zell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09615},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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