Five-moment conjecture for GUE fluctuations of directed random polymers

Let ω\omega be an i.i.d. random environment. For each β>0\beta>0, let Znω(0;β)Z_n^{\omega}(0;\beta) be the directed polymer partition function, and let FGUEF_{GUE} denote the Tracy–Widom GUE distribution. Five-moment conjecture. If ω\omega has 55 moments, then there are constants c=c(β)c=c(\beta) and σ=σ(β)\sigma=\sigma(\beta) such that, for all β>0\beta>0 and as nn\to\infty,

logZnω(0;β)c(β)nσ(β)n1/3(d)FGUE.\frac{\log Z_n^{\omega}(0;\beta)-c(\beta)n}{\sigma(\beta)n^{1/3}}\xrightarrow{(d)}F_{GUE}.

This is presented as a conjectural strong-universality statement for directed polymers, contrasting with the paper's weaker result under a small-β\beta exponential-moment assumption. Its resolution is not given in the supplied text.

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Tom Alberts, Konstantin Khanin and Jeremy Quastel, “The intermediate disorder regime for directed polymers in dimension 1+1”, arXiv:1202.4398 (2014).

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