GOE fluctuation conjecture for flat initial conditions

Let PP be the pressure function, let β\beta be the slope of flat initial conditions, and set λ=γP(β)0\lambda=\gamma P”(\beta)\neq 0 and A=P(β)A=-P'(\beta). For the particle system with flat initial data of slope β\beta, define FGOE(s)=P(ξGOEs)F_{\mathrm{GOE}}(s)=\mathbb{P}(\xi_{\mathrm{GOE}}\leq s). GOE fluctuation conjecture. For each uu and ss,

limtP(xut(t)(uβ+γP(β))tsgn(λ)(λA2t)1/3s)=FGOE(2s).\lim_{t\to\infty}\mathbb{P}\left(x_{\lfloor ut\rfloor}(t)-(u\beta+\gamma P(\beta))t\leq-\operatorname{sgn}(\lambda)(|\lambda|A^2t)^{1/3}s\right)=F_{\mathrm{GOE}}(2s).

The conjecture predicts Tracy–Widom GOE fluctuations, in contrast with the GUE law expected for wedge initial conditions; the corresponding spatial fluctuation process is expected to be the Airy1_1 process. The statement is motivated by the KPZ equation and periodic TASEP, where analogous formulas are known.

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Tomohiro Sasamoto and Herbert Spohn, “Point-interacting Brownian motions in the KPZ universality class”, arXiv:1411.3142 (2014).

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