Borodin-Péché Fluctuations of the Free Energy in Directed Random Polymer Models

Talyigás, Zsófia and Vető, Bálint (2019) Borodin-Péché Fluctuations of the Free Energy in Directed Random Polymer Models. Journal of Theoretical Probability. ISSN 1572-9230, 0894-9840 (In Press)

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Abstract

We consider two directed polymer models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class: the O’Connell-Yor semi-discrete directed polymer with boundary sources and the continuum directed random polymer with (m, n)-spiked boundary perturbations. The free energy of the continuum polymer is the Hopf–Cole solution of the KPZ equation with the corresponding (m, n)-spiked initial condition. This new initial condition is constructed using two semi-discrete polymer models with independent bulk randomness and coupled boundary sources. We prove that the limiting fluctuations of the free energies rescaled by the 1/3rd power of time in both polymer models converge to the Borodin-Péché-type deformations of the GUE Tracy–Widom distribution.

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