Stationary-measure and phase-diagram conjecture for the half-space log-Gamma polymer

Let Z(x,n)Z(x,n) be the half-space log-Gamma polymer partition function governed by the recurrence in the source, and let Tβ,t\mathcal{T}_{\beta,t} denote the stationary spatial process with parameters β\beta and tt. For given αR>0\alpha \in \mathbb{R}_{>0} and β,tR\beta,t \in \mathbb{R} with α>t>0\alpha>t>0 and β>t\beta>-t, the family Tβ,t\\{\mathcal{T}_{\beta,t}\\} consists of all extremal stationary measures. If the initial data satisfy limxlogZ(x,1)/x=dR\lim_{x\to\infty}\log Z(x,1)/x=-d\in\mathbb{R} and t=αψ1(d)t=\alpha-\psi^{-1}(d), then the normalized process has the following weak limits as NN\to\infty: in the high-density regime, βt\beta\geq-t and t0t\geq0, it converges to Tβ,t\mathcal{T}_{\beta,t}; in the maximal-current regime, β0\beta\geq0 and t0t\leq0, it converges to Tβ,0\mathcal{T}_{\beta,0}; and in the low-density regime, tβ-t\geq\beta and β0\beta\leq0, it converges to Tt,t\mathcal{T}_{-t,t}, a Gamma1(α+t)\operatorname{Gamma}^{-1}(\alpha+t) multiplicative random walk.

Stationary-measure and phase-diagram conjecture. The stated family gives all extremal stationary measures, and the three parameter regimes give the corresponding weak limits of (Z(x+N,N)/Z(N,N))xZ0\left(Z(x+N,N)/Z(N,N)\right)_{x\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geq0}}. This identifies the limiting spatial process for each phase of the half-space model. The source presents this as a conjectural phase diagram and does not provide evidence of resolution.

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Jiyue Zeng and Xinyi Zhang, “Stationary Log-Gamma Polymer in Half-Space”, arXiv:2602.19500 (2026).

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