Poisson statistics, vanishing correlations, and extremal particle limits for symmetric exclusion in d > 1

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Main Authors: Conroy, Michael, Sethuraman, Sunder
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author Conroy, Michael
Sethuraman, Sunder
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Sethuraman, Sunder
contents We consider the symmetric simple exclusion system on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d \ge 2$, starting from a class of ``step'' initial conditions in which particles are constrained within a half-space. One may count the number $N_t$ of particles that have moved beyond a distance $z = z(t)$ into the initially-empty half of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ at time $t$. We show in large generality that when $\lim_{t\to\infty} E[N_t]$ exists, correlations between particles beyond $z$ vanish as $t \to \infty$ so as to allow convergence of $N_t$ to the same Poisson distribution one would get were the particles allowed to move independently. When the initial condition constrains a region of polynomial growth, we identify $z(t)$ and the limit of $E[N_t]$ explicitly. As a consequence of the limit, we obtain a Gumbel limit distribution for the extremal particle position, as well as the limiting distributions of all order statistics.
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spellingShingle Poisson statistics, vanishing correlations, and extremal particle limits for symmetric exclusion in d > 1
Conroy, Michael
Sethuraman, Sunder
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60K35, 60F05
We consider the symmetric simple exclusion system on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d \ge 2$, starting from a class of ``step'' initial conditions in which particles are constrained within a half-space. One may count the number $N_t$ of particles that have moved beyond a distance $z = z(t)$ into the initially-empty half of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ at time $t$. We show in large generality that when $\lim_{t\to\infty} E[N_t]$ exists, correlations between particles beyond $z$ vanish as $t \to \infty$ so as to allow convergence of $N_t$ to the same Poisson distribution one would get were the particles allowed to move independently. When the initial condition constrains a region of polynomial growth, we identify $z(t)$ and the limit of $E[N_t]$ explicitly. As a consequence of the limit, we obtain a Gumbel limit distribution for the extremal particle position, as well as the limiting distributions of all order statistics.
title Poisson statistics, vanishing correlations, and extremal particle limits for symmetric exclusion in d > 1
topic Probability
60K35, 60F05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10522