Convergence of exclusion processes and the KPZ equation to the KPZ fixed point

Quastel, Jeremy; Sarkar, Sourav

doi:10.1090/jams/999

Convergence of exclusion processes and the KPZ equation to the KPZ fixed point
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by Jeremy Quastel and Sourav Sarkar

J. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (2023), 251-289

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/999

Published electronically: March 8, 2022

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Abstract:

We show that under the 1:2:3 scaling, critically probing large space and time, the height function of finite range asymmetric exclusion processes and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation converge to the KPZ fixed point, constructed earlier as a limit of the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process through exact formulas. Consequently, based on recent results of Wu [Tightness and local fluctuation estimates for the KPZ line ensemble, 2021], Dimitrov and Matetski [Ann. Probab. 49 (2021), pp. 2477–2529], the KPZ line ensemble converges to the Airy line ensemble.

For the KPZ equation we are able to start from a continuous function plus a finite collection of narrow wedges. For nearest neighbour exclusions, we can take (discretizations) of continuous functions with $|h(x)|\le C(1+\sqrt {|x|})$ for some $C>0$, or one narrow wedge. For non-nearest neighbour exclusions, we are restricted at the present time to a class of (random) initial data, dense in continuous functions in the topology of uniform convergence on compacts.

The method is by comparison of the transition probabilities of finite range exclusion processes and the totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes using energy estimates.

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