Diffusive Scaling limit of stochastic Box-Ball systems and PushTASEP

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Autori principali: Keating, David, Kim, Minjun, Loeser, Eva, Lyu, Hanbaek
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author Keating, David
Kim, Minjun
Loeser, Eva
Lyu, Hanbaek
author_facet Keating, David
Kim, Minjun
Loeser, Eva
Lyu, Hanbaek
contents We introduce the Stochastic Box-Ball System (SBBS), a probabilistic cellular automaton that generalizes the classic Takahashi-Satsuma Box-Ball System. In SBBS, particles are transported by a carrier with a fixed capacity that may fail to pick up any given particle with a fixed probability $ε$. This model interpolates between two known integrable systems: the Box-Ball System (as $ε\rightarrow 0$) and the PushTASEP (as $ε\rightarrow 1$). We show that the long-term behavior of SBBS is governed by isolated particles and the occasional emergence of short solitons, which can form longer solitons but are more likely to fall apart. More precisely, we first show that all particles are isolated except for a $1/\sqrt{n}$-fraction of times in any given $n$ steps, and solitons keep forming for this fraction of times. We then show that under diffusive scaling, both SBBS (for any carrier capacity) and PushTASEP converge weakly to semimartingale reflecting Brownian Motions (SRBMs) on the Weyl chamber with explicit covariance and reflection matrices, which are consistent with the microscale relations between these systems. The reflection matrix for SBBS is determined by how 2-solitons behave and exhibit ``solitonic bias'' visible in the diffusive scale. Our proof relies on a new, extended SRBM invariance principle that we develop in this work. This principle can handle processes with complex boundary behavior that can be written as "overdetermined" Skorokhod decompositions, which is crucial for analyzing the complex solitonic interaction in SBBS. We believe this tool may be of independent interest.
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spellingShingle Diffusive Scaling limit of stochastic Box-Ball systems and PushTASEP
Keating, David
Kim, Minjun
Loeser, Eva
Lyu, Hanbaek
Probability
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
603K5, 82C22, 37J70, 37K40
We introduce the Stochastic Box-Ball System (SBBS), a probabilistic cellular automaton that generalizes the classic Takahashi-Satsuma Box-Ball System. In SBBS, particles are transported by a carrier with a fixed capacity that may fail to pick up any given particle with a fixed probability $ε$. This model interpolates between two known integrable systems: the Box-Ball System (as $ε\rightarrow 0$) and the PushTASEP (as $ε\rightarrow 1$). We show that the long-term behavior of SBBS is governed by isolated particles and the occasional emergence of short solitons, which can form longer solitons but are more likely to fall apart. More precisely, we first show that all particles are isolated except for a $1/\sqrt{n}$-fraction of times in any given $n$ steps, and solitons keep forming for this fraction of times. We then show that under diffusive scaling, both SBBS (for any carrier capacity) and PushTASEP converge weakly to semimartingale reflecting Brownian Motions (SRBMs) on the Weyl chamber with explicit covariance and reflection matrices, which are consistent with the microscale relations between these systems. The reflection matrix for SBBS is determined by how 2-solitons behave and exhibit ``solitonic bias'' visible in the diffusive scale. Our proof relies on a new, extended SRBM invariance principle that we develop in this work. This principle can handle processes with complex boundary behavior that can be written as "overdetermined" Skorokhod decompositions, which is crucial for analyzing the complex solitonic interaction in SBBS. We believe this tool may be of independent interest.
title Diffusive Scaling limit of stochastic Box-Ball systems and PushTASEP
topic Probability
Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
603K5, 82C22, 37J70, 37K40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20779