The Plancherel-TASEP second-class-particle Brownian-motion conjecture

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Consider the Plancherel-TASEP interacting particle system, and let unu_n be the position of its second-class particle at time nn. Let μSC\mu_{\operatorname{SC}} be the semicircle distribution on [2,2][-2,2], and let σV\sigma_V denote the scaling constant used in the conjecture. Plancherel-TASEP second-class-particle conjecture. There exists a random variable VμSCV\sim\mu_{\operatorname{SC}} such that, as cc\to\infty,

tc1/4σV[uct2cVt]t\mapsto\frac{c^{1/4}}{\sigma_V}\left[\frac{u_{\lfloor ct^2\rfloor}}{\sqrt c}-Vt\right]

converges in distribution to the standard Brownian motion B(t)B(t). This reformulates part of the jeu de taquin conjecture in interacting-particle language, identifying the second-class particle's fluctuations with Brownian motion.

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Mikołaj Marciniak and Piotr Śniady, “Fluctuations of Schensted row insertion”, arXiv:2302.03762 (2025).

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