Boundary scaling limit conjecture for frozen-boundary diffusion

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For frozen-boundary diffusion with parameter α\alpha, let μt\mu_t be its mass distribution and define the boundary by

βt:=sup⁡{x∈Z:μt([x,∞))≥α2}.\beta_t:=\sup\left\{x\in\mathbb Z:\mu_t([x,\infty))\geq\frac{\alpha}{2}\right\}.

Boundary scaling limit conjecture. For every α∈(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1), there exists ℓα>0\ell_{\alpha}>0 such that

lim⁡t→∞βtt=ℓα.\lim_{t\to\infty}\frac{\beta_t}{\sqrt{t}}=\ell_{\alpha}.

The preceding bounds show that βt\beta_t has order t\sqrt{t}; the conjecture asks whether its normalized location converges. The source gives no resolution of this question.

References

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Laura Florescu, Shirshendu Ganguly, Yuval Peres and Joel Spencer, “Heat diffusion with frozen boundary”, arXiv:1503.08534 (2015).

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