Wednesday, April 4, 2012

1106.2717 (Ivan Corwin et al.)

Continuum statistics of the Airy2 process    [PDF]

Ivan Corwin, Jeremy Quastel, Daniel Remenik
We develop an exact determinantal formula for the probability that the Airy$_2$ process is bounded by a function $g$ on a finite interval. As an application, we provide a direct proof that $\sup(\aip(x)-x^2)$ is distributed as a GOE random variable. Both the continuum formula and the GOE result have applications in the study of the end point of an unconstrained directed polymer in a disordered environment. We explain Johansson's [Joh03] observation that the GOE result follows from this polymer interpretation and exact results within that field. In a companion paper [MQR11] these continuum statistics are used to compute the distribution of the endpoint of directed polymers.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2717

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