Uniform-speed conjecture for a non-escaping impurity in TASEP
Let an impurity in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process have jumping rates and , and initially be located at the interface of a - profile. Assume that 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
For or , the impurity can escape from the rarefaction fan and acquire speed or , respectively; determining the conditional non-uniform distributions remains an open problem, while numerical evidence supports the stated uniform law.
References
Primary source
Luigi Cantini and Ali Zahra, “Single impurity in the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process”, arXiv:2411.08480 (2024).
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