Last passage percolation in a product-type random environment

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Main Authors: Bakhtin, Yuri, Khanin, Konstantin, Mészáros, András, Voltz, Jeremy
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Published: 2023
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author Bakhtin, Yuri
Khanin, Konstantin
Mészáros, András
Voltz, Jeremy
author_facet Bakhtin, Yuri
Khanin, Konstantin
Mészáros, András
Voltz, Jeremy
contents We consider a last passage percolation model in dimension $1+1$ with potential given by the product of a spatial i.i.d. potential with symmetric bounded distribution and an independent i.i.d. in time sequence of signs. We assume that the density of the spatial potential near the edge of its support behaves as a power, with exponent $κ>-1$. We investigate the linear growth rate of the actions of optimal point-to-point lazy random walk paths as a function of the path slope and describe the structure of the resulting shape function. It has a corner at $0$ and, although its restriction to positive slopes cannot be linear, we prove that it has a flat edge near $0$ if $κ>0$. For optimal point-to-line paths, we study their actions and locations of favorable edges that the paths tends to reach and stay at. Under an additional assumption on the time it takes for the optimal path to reach the favorable location, we prove that appropriately normalized actions converge to a limiting distribution that can be viewed as a counterpart of the Tracy-Widom law. Since the scaling exponent and the limiting distribution depend only on the parameter $κ$, our results provide a description of a new universality class.
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spellingShingle Last passage percolation in a product-type random environment
Bakhtin, Yuri
Khanin, Konstantin
Mészáros, András
Voltz, Jeremy
Probability
Mathematical Physics
We consider a last passage percolation model in dimension $1+1$ with potential given by the product of a spatial i.i.d. potential with symmetric bounded distribution and an independent i.i.d. in time sequence of signs. We assume that the density of the spatial potential near the edge of its support behaves as a power, with exponent $κ>-1$. We investigate the linear growth rate of the actions of optimal point-to-point lazy random walk paths as a function of the path slope and describe the structure of the resulting shape function. It has a corner at $0$ and, although its restriction to positive slopes cannot be linear, we prove that it has a flat edge near $0$ if $κ>0$. For optimal point-to-line paths, we study their actions and locations of favorable edges that the paths tends to reach and stay at. Under an additional assumption on the time it takes for the optimal path to reach the favorable location, we prove that appropriately normalized actions converge to a limiting distribution that can be viewed as a counterpart of the Tracy-Widom law. Since the scaling exponent and the limiting distribution depend only on the parameter $κ$, our results provide a description of a new universality class.
title Last passage percolation in a product-type random environment
topic Probability
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08379