Sheffield's uniqueness conjecture for extremal Brownian Gibbs line ensembles

Let A\mathcal{A} be an N\mathbb{N}-indexed line ensemble. Say that A\mathcal{A} is xx-invariant if A(s+)\mathcal{A}(s+\cdot) has the same distribution as A\mathcal{A} for every s\binmathbbRs\binmathbb{R}. Let L\mathcal{L} denote the Airy line ensemble from Theorem~, and define

Ai(t)=21/2Li(t)+t2,\mathcal{A}_i(t)=2^{1/2}\mathcal{L}_i(t)+t^2,

for iNi\in\mathbb{N}. Sheffield's uniqueness conjecture. The set of extremal Brownian Gibbs N\mathbb{N}-indexed line ensembles L\mathcal{L} for which the associated ensemble A\mathcal{A} is xx-invariant is exactly

{L(0,y):yR}.\big\{\mathcal{L}^{(0,y)}:y\in\mathbb{R}\big\}.

The conjecture proposes that the vertically shifted Airy line ensembles exhaust the extremal Brownian Gibbs measures with this translation-invariance property. The source attributes the possibility to Scott Sheffield and does not state a resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

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Ivan Corwin and Alan Hammond, “Brownian Gibbs property for Airy line ensembles”, arXiv:1108.2291 (2013).

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