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The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and universality class
Brownian motion is a continuum scaling limit for a wide class of random
processes, and there has been great success in developing a theory for its
properties (such as distribution functions or regularity) and expanding the
breadth of its universality class. Over the past twenty five years a new
universality class has emerged to describe a host of important physical and
probabilistic models (including one dimensional interface growth processes,
interacting particle systems and polymers in random environments) which display
characteristic, though unusual, scalings and new statistics. This class is
called the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class and underlying it is,
again, a continuum object -- a non-linear stochastic partial differential
equation -- known as the KPZ equation. The purpose of this survey is to explain
the context for, as well as the content of a number of mathematical
breakthroughs which have culminated in the derivation of the exact formula for
the distribution function of the KPZ equation started with {\it narrow wedge}
initial data. In particular we emphasize three topics: (1) The approximation of
the KPZ equation through the weakly asymmetric simple exclusion process; (2)
The derivation of the exact one-point distribution of the solution to the KPZ
equation with narrow wedge initial data; (3) Connections with directed polymers
in random media. As the purpose of this article is to survey and review, we
make precise statements but provide only heuristic arguments with indications
of the technical complexities necessary to make such arguments mathematically
rigorous.Comment: 57 pages, survey article, 7 figures, addition physics ref. added and
typo's correcte
Macdonald processes, quantum integrable systems and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class
Integrable probability has emerged as an active area of research at the
interface of probability/mathematical physics/statistical mechanics on the one
hand, and representation theory/integrable systems on the other. Informally,
integrable probabilistic systems have two properties: 1) It is possible to
write down concise and exact formulas for expectations of a variety of
interesting observables (or functions) of the system. 2) Asymptotics of the
system and associated exact formulas provide access to exact descriptions of
the properties and statistics of large universality classes and universal
scaling limits for disordered systems. We focus here on examples of integrable
probabilistic systems related to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality
class and explain how their integrability stems from connections with symmetric
function theory and quantum integrable systems.Comment: Proceedings of the ICM, 31 pages, 10 figure
Ergodicity of the Airy line ensemble
In this paper, we establish the ergodicity of the Airy line ensemble. This
shows that it is the only candidate for Conjecture 3.2 in [3], regarding the
classification of ergodic line ensembles satisfying a certain Brownian Gibbs
property after a parabolic shift.Comment: argument for Proposition 1.13 is revised, the structure of the
introduction is rearrange
The q-PushASEP: A New Integrable Model for Traffic in 1+1 Dimension
We introduce a new interacting (stochastic) particle system q-PushASEP which
interpolates between the q-TASEP introduced by Borodin and Corwin (see
arXiv:1111.4408, and also arXiv:1207.5035; arXiv:1305.2972; arXiv:1212.6716)
and the q-PushTASEP introduced recently by Borodin and Petrov
(arXiv:1305.5501). In the q-PushASEP, particles can jump to the left or to the
right, and there is a certain partially asymmetric pushing mechanism present.
This particle system has a nice interpretation as a model of traffic on a
one-lane highway in which cars are able to accelerate or slow down.
Using the quantum many body system approach, we explicitly compute the
expectations of a large family of observables for this system in terms of
nested contour integrals. We also discuss relevant Fredholm determinantal
formulas for the distribution of the location of each particle, and connections
of the model with a certain two-sided version of Macdonald processes and with
the semi-discrete stochastic heat equation.Comment: 22 pages; 4 figures. v2: minor improvements of presentation and
discussions. To appear in Journal of Statistical Physic
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