Airy Processes With Wanderers and New Universality Classes

Adler, Mark;Ferrari, Patrik L.;Van Moerbeke, Pierre
(2010) Annals of Probability — Vol. 38, n° 2, p. 714-769 (2010)

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  • Adler, Mark
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  • Ferrari, Patrik L.
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Consider n + m nonintersecting Brownian bridges, with n of them leaving from 0 at time t = -1 and returning to 0 at time t = -1, while the m remaining ones (wanderers) go from m points a(i) to m points b(i). First, we keep m fixed and we scale a(i), b(i) appropriately with n. In the large-n limit, we obtain a new Airy process with wanderers, in the neighborhood of root 2n, the approximate location of the rightmost particle in the absence of wanderers. This new process is governed by an Airy-type kernel, with a rational perturbation. Letting the number m of wanderers tend to infinity as well, leads to two Pearcey processes about two cusps, a closing and an opening cusp, the location of the tips being related by an elliptic curve. Upon tuning the starting and target points, one can let the two tips of the cusps grow very close; this leads to a new process, which might be governed by a kernel, represented as a double integral involving the exponential of a quintic polynomial in the integration variables.
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Adler, M., Ferrari, P. L., & Van Moerbeke, P. (2010). Airy Processes With Wanderers and New Universality Classes. Annals of Probability, 38(2), 714-769. https://doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP493 (Original work published 2010)