Bounded-carrier Brownian box-ball invariance conjecture

Fix K>0K>0. Let WKW^K be the stationary Markov process obtained by conditioning the carrier process associated with Brownian motion with drift c>0c>0 to remain below KK, let LKL^K be its local time at 00 with L0K=0L^K_0=0, and set

SK=LKWK+W0K.S^K=L^K-W^K+W^K_0.

Thus SKS^K is interpreted as Brownian motion with drift c>0c>0 conditioned to stay within KK of its past maximum, and let TT denote the box-ball transformation on paths.

Bounded-carrier Brownian invariance conjecture. If SKS^K is the Brownian motion with drift c>0c>0 conditioned to stay within KK of its past maximum, then

TSK\buildreld=SK.TS^K\buildrel{d}\over{=}S^K.

This is a conjectured non-periodic analogue of the preceding invariance result. The paper describes a potential proof strategy via stationary Markov processes and scaling limits, but does not establish the claim.

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David A. Croydon and Makiko Sasada, “Invariant measures for the box-ball system based on stationary Markov chains and periodic Gibbs measures”, arXiv:1905.00186 (2019).

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