The mixture representation conjecture for stationary gap distributions

Let the diffusion coefficients satisfy σn=1\sigma_n=1 for every nZn\in\mathbb{Z}, and assume the conditions of Theorem 2.1 hold. For (a,b)R2(a,b)\in\mathbb{R}^2, define

λn=2Φn+1(g)+a+bn,nZ,\lambda_n=2\Phi_{n+1}(g)+a+bn,\qquad n\in\mathbb{Z},

and let

Σ={(a,b)R2λn>0 for every nZ}.\Sigma=\{(a,b)\in\mathbb{R}^2\mid \lambda_n>0\text{ for every }n\in\mathbb{Z}\}.

For (a,b)Σ(a,b)\in\Sigma, write πa,b=nZExp(λn)\pi_{a,b}=\bigotimes_{n\in\mathbb{Z}}\operatorname{Exp}(\lambda_n) for the corresponding stationary gap distribution, and let ρ\rho be a probability measure on Σ\Sigma. Mixture representation conjecture. Every stationary gap distribution of the two-sided infinite system can be represented as

Σπa,bdρ(a,b)\int_{\Sigma}\pi_{a,b}\,\mathrm{d}\rho(a,b)

for some probability measure ρ\rho on Σ\Sigma. The explicit product-form measures are stationary, and the conjecture asserts that their mixtures exhaust all stationary gap distributions; the source gives no resolution of this converse statement.

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Primary source

Andrey Sarantsev, “Two-Sided Infinite Systems of Competing Brownian Particles”, arXiv:1509.01859 (2017).

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