The ASEP almost-sure speed convergence conjecture

Let pin(1/2,1]pin(1/2,1] and write ρ=2p1\rho=2p-1. Consider the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP), with particles jumping right at rate pp and left at rate 1p1-p, and let X0(t)X_0(t) denote the position at time tt of the particle initially labelled 00. The ASEP speed convergence conjecture. In the ASEP,

limtX0(t)t\lim_{t\to\infty} \frac{X_0(t)}{t}

exists almost surely, and its distribution is uniform on [ρ,ρ][-\rho,\rho]. This is equivalent to the existence of the ASEP speed-process measure μASEP\mu^{\mathrm{ASEP}}, which is translation invariant and has each speed UnU_n uniformly distributed on [ρ,ρ][-\rho,\rho]. Distributional convergence is known by the methods of Ferrari and Kipnis, but almost-sure convergence remains unproved in the source.

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Gideon Amir, Omer Angel and Benedek Valkó, “The TASEP speed process”, arXiv:0811.3706 (2012).

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