Density profiles in the raise and peel model with and without a wall. Physics and combinatorics

We consider the raise and peel model of a one-dimensional fluctuating interface in the presence of an attractive wall. The model can also describe a pair annihilation process in a disordered unquenched media with a source at one end of the system. For the stationary states, several density profiles are studied using Monte Carlo simulations. We point out a deep connection between some profiles seen in the presence of the wall and in its absence. Our results are discussed in the context of conformal invariance ($c = 0$ theory). We discover some unexpected values for the critical exponents, which were obtained using combinatorial methods. We have solved known (Pascal's hexagon) and new (split-hexagon) bilinear recurrence relations. The solutions of these equations are interesting on their own since they give information on certain classes of alternating sign matrices.Comment: 39 pages, 28 figure

Stochastic processes with Z_N symmetry and complex Virasoro representations. The partition functions

In a previous Letter (J. Phys. A v.47 (2014) 212003) we have presented numerical evidence that a Hamiltonian expressed in terms of the generators of the periodic Temperley-Lieb algebra has, in the finite-size scaling limit, a spectrum given by representations of the Virasoro algebra with complex highest weights. This Hamiltonian defines a stochastic process with a Z_N symmetry. We give here analytical expressions for the partition functions for this system which confirm the numerics. For N even, the Hamiltonian has a symmetry which makes the spectrum doubly degenerate leading to two independent stochastic processes. The existence of a complex spectrum leads to an oscillating approach to the stationary state. This phenomenon is illustrated by an example.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, in a revised version few misprints corrected, one relevant reference adde

Representations of Hecke algebras and Markov dualities for interacting particle systems

Many continuous reaction-diffusion models on $\mathbb{Z}$ (annihilating or coalescing random walks, exclusion processes, voter models) admit a rich set of Markov duality functions which determine the single time distribution. A common feature of these models is that their generators are given by sums of two-site idempotent operators. In this paper, we classify all continuous time Markov processes on $\{0,1\}^{\mathbb{Z}}$ whose generators have this property, although to simplify the calculations we only consider models with equal left and right jumping rates. The classification leads to six familiar models and three exceptional models. The generators of all but the exceptional models turn out to belong to an infinite dimensional Hecke algebra, and the duality functions appear as spanning vectors for small-dimensional irreducible representations of this Hecke algebra. A second classification explores generators built from two site operators satisfying the Hecke algebra relations. The duality functions are intertwiners between configuration and co-ordinate representations of Hecke algebras, which results in a novel co-ordinate representations of the Hecke algebra. The standard Baxterisation procedure leads to new solutions of the Young-Baxter equation corresponding to particle systems which do not preserve the number of particles.Comment: 62 pages, 2 figure

Braided Differential Operators on Quantum Algebras

We define the braided differential algebras which can be interpreted as quantization of the differential operator algebra defined on some algebraic varieties supplied with the action of the group GL(m). The algebra is generated by right invariant or coajoint vector fields. Our main example is gl^*(m) and coadjoint orbits in it. The Heisenberg double on the quantum group Fun_q(GL(m)is a particular case of the suggested construction.Comment: Corrected and extended version. An illustrative example is added into the Section 5. LaTex file, 24 pp. Accepted for publication in "Journal of Geometry and Physics