Parabolic rigidity conjecture for the KPZ line ensemble

Fix t>0t>0, and let H(t)={Hn(t)}n=1\mathcal{H}^{(t)}=\{\mathcal{H}^{(t)}_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty} be the KPZ line ensemble at parameter tt. For each nn, regard Hn(t)Hn(t)(0)\mathcal{H}^{(t)}_n-\mathcal{H}^{(t)}_n(0) as a random function of xx.

Parabolic rigidity conjecture. As nn\to\infty, the sequence of functions

Hn(t)Hn(t)(0)\mathcal{H}^{(t)}_n-\mathcal{H}^{(t)}_n(0)

converges almost surely, uniformly on compact sets, to the deterministic parabola x2/(2t)-x^2/(2t).

This predicts that the individual KPZ lines become rigid after recentering at their values at the origin. It is stated among the paper's open problems and is motivated heuristically by Brownian resampling and the large-index Toda locations.

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Duncan Dauvergne and Fardin Syed, “Bulk heights of the KPZ line ensemble”, arXiv:2602.06876 (2026).

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