Uniform-speed conjecture for a non-escaping impurity in TASEP

Let an impurity in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process have jumping rates b1b1 and b2b2, and initially be located at the interface of a 11-00 profile. Assume that b1+b2ot<1b1+b2 ot<1 and condition on the impurity not escaping the rarefaction fan. Uniform-speed conjecture. The asymptotic speed of the impurity is uniformly distributed over the interval

[max(1,12b2),min(1,2b11)].[\max(-1,1-2b2),\min(1,2b1-1)].

For b1>1b1>1 or b2>1b2>1, the impurity can escape from the rarefaction fan and acquire speed b1b1 or b2-b2, respectively; determining the conditional non-uniform distributions remains an open problem, while numerical evidence supports the stated uniform law.

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Luigi Cantini and Ali Zahra, “Single impurity in the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process”, arXiv:2411.08480 (2024).

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