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Published on: February 22, 2018
Point fields of last passage percolation and coalescing fractional Brownian motions
Konstantin Khanin1, Liying Li1, Zhanghan Yin1
1Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 2E4, Canada.
Abstract:
We consider large-scale point fields which naturally appear in the context of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) phenomenon. Such point fields are geometrical objects formed by points of mass concentration, and by shocks separating the sources of these points. We introduce similarly defined point fields for processes of coalescing fractional Brownian motions (cfBMs). The case of the Hurst index 2/3 is of particular interest for us since, in this case, the power law of the density decay is the same as that in the KPZ phenomenon. In this paper, we present strong numerical evidence that statistical properties of points fields in these two different settings are very similar. We also discuss theoretical arguments in support of the conjecture that they are exactly the same in the large-time limit. This would indicate that two objects may, in fact, belong to the same universality class.
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