Tracy–Widom GUE fluctuations for half-space Beta RWRE point-to-point probabilities

Let θ>μ>0\theta>\mu>0 and η>0\eta>0. Let P0,2t(xθt,1)\mathsf P_{0,2t}(x_\theta t,1) be the half-space Beta RWRE point-to-point probability. Define

xθ=2ψ1(θ)ψ1(θ+μ)ψ1(θμ)ψ1(θ+μ)ψ1(θμ),aθ=G(θ),bθ=(G(θ)2)13,x_\theta=\frac{2\psi_1(\theta)-\psi_1(\theta+\mu)-\psi_1(\theta-\mu)}{\psi_1(\theta+\mu)-\psi_1(\theta-\mu)},\qquad a_\theta=-G'(\theta),\qquad b_\theta=\left(\frac{G”'(\theta)}{2}\right)^{\frac13},

where ψ1(z)=z2logΓ(z)\psi_1(z)=\partial_z^2\log\Gamma(z) and

G(z)=log(Γ(z)2Γ(z+μ)Γ(zμ))+x(θ)log(Γ(zμ)Γ(z+μ)).G(z)=\log\left(\frac{\Gamma(z)^2}{\Gamma(z+\mu)\Gamma(z-\mu)}\right)+x(\theta)\log\left(\frac{\Gamma(z-\mu)}{\Gamma(z+\mu)}\right).

Tracy–Widom GUE fluctuation conjecture. One has

limtP(logP0,2t(xθt,1)aθtbθt1/3y)=FGUE(y),\lim_{t\to\infty}\mathbb P\left(\frac{\log\mathsf P_{0,2t}(x_\theta t,1)-a_\theta t}{b_\theta t^{1/3}}\leqslant y\right)=F_{\rm GUE}(y),

where FGUEF_{\rm GUE} is the Tracy–Widom GUE distribution function. This is a non-rigorous KPZ-universality prediction for the large-deviation point-to-point probability; the source describes the asymptotic analysis as non-rigorous and does not establish the limit.

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Primary source

Guillaume Barraquand and Mark Rychnovsky, “Random walk on nonnegative integers in beta distributed random environment”, arXiv:2201.07270 (2022).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1804.09571, arXiv:1802.04046.

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