25 research outputs found
Limit shapes for skew Howe duality
We study large random partitions boxed into a rectangle and coming from skew
Howe duality, or alternatively from dual Schur measures. As the sides of the
rectangle go to infinity, we obtain: 1) limit shape results for the profiles
generalizing the Vershik--Kerov--Logan--Shepp curve; and 2) universal edge
asymptotic results for the first parts in the form of the Tracy--Widom
distribution, as well as less-universal critical regime results introduced by
Gravner, Tracy and Widom. We do this for a large class of Schur parameters
going beyond the Plancherel or principal specializations previously studied in
the literature, parametrized by two real valued functions and .
Connections to a Bernoulli model of (last passage) percolation are explored.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, extended abstrac
Multicritical Schur measures and higher-order analogues of the Tracy-Widom distribution
We introduce multicritical Schur measures, which are probability laws on
integer partitions which give rise to non-generic fluctuations at their edge.
They are in the same universality classes as one-dimensional momentum-space
models of free fermions in flat confining potentials, studied by Le Doussal,
Majumdar and Schehr. These universality classes involve critical exponents of
the form 1/(2m+1), with m a positive integer, and asymptotic distributions
given by Fredholm determinants constructed from higher order Airy kernels,
extending the generic Tracy-Widom GUE distribution recovered for m=1. We also
compute limit shapes for the multicritical Schur measures, discuss the finite
temperature setting, and exhibit an exact mapping to the multicritical unitary
matrix models previously encountered by Periwal and Shevitz.Comment: 50 pages, 8 figures, long version of arXiv:2012.01995 [math.CO