Kenyon–Okounkov conjecture for height fluctuations in random tilings

Let HtN\mathsf{Ht}_\mathcal N be the random height function of the model at scale N\mathcal N, let E[HtN]\mathbb E[\mathsf{Ht}_\mathcal N] be its expectation, let £\pounds denote the liquid region, and let ξ\xi be the complex slope determining its complex structure. Kenyon–Okounkov conjecture. The random field

π(HtNE[HtN])\sqrt{\pi}\big(\mathsf{Ht}_\mathcal N-\mathbb E[\mathsf{Ht}_\mathcal N]\big)

converges as N\mathcal N\to\infty in the liquid region £\pounds to the Gaussian free field with respect to the complex slope ξ\xi and with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This conjecture predicts the next-order stochastic fluctuations around the limit shape: frozen regions have no fluctuations, while the centered height function in the liquid region has universal Gaussian-free-field asymptotics. The supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Gaëtan Borot, Vadim Gorin and Alice Guionnet, “Macroscopic asymptotics in discrete beta-ensembles and random tilings”, arXiv:2601.16377 (2026).

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