November 2023 Tightness of discrete Gibbsian line ensembles with exponential interaction Hamiltonians
Xuan Wu
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Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 59(4): 2106-2150 (November 2023). DOI: 10.1214/22-AIHP1307

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a framework to prove the tightness of a sequence of discrete Gibbsian line ensembles LN={Lk1(u),Lk2(u),}, a countable collection of random curves. The sequence of discrete line ensembles LN we consider enjoys a resampling invariance property, which we call (HN,HRW,N)-Gibbs property. We assume that LN satisfies technical Assumptions A1–A4 on (HN,HRW,N) and that the lowest labeled curve with a parabolic shift, L1N(u)+u2/2, converges weakly to a stationary process in the topology of uniform convergence on compact sets. Under these assumptions, we prove our main result Theorem 2.18 that LN is tight and the H-Brownian Gibbs property holds for all subsequential limit line ensembles with H(x)=ex. Together with the characterization result in Dimitrov (2021), this proves the convergence to the KPZ line ensemble. As an application of Theorem 2.18, under the weak noise scaling, we show that the scaled log-gamma line ensemble LN converge to the KPZ line ensemble.

Dans cet article, nous introduisons un cadre de travail pour prouver la tension d’une suite d’ensembles discrets de droites gibbsiennes LN={Lk1(u),Lk2(u),}, une collection dénombrable de courbes aléatoires. La suite d’ensembles de lignes discrètes LN que nous considérons jouit d’une propriété d’invariance par rééchantillonnage, que nous appelons propriété (HN,HRW,N)-Gibbs. Nous supposons que LN satisfait les hypothèses techniques A1–A4 sur (HN,HRW,N) et que la courbe étiquetée la plus basse avec un décalage parabolique, L1N(u)+u2/2, converge faiblement vers un processus stationnaire dans la topologie de la convergence uniforme sur les ensembles compacts. Sous ces hypothèses, nous prouvons notre résultat principal, Theorem 2.18, que LN est tendu et que la propriété H-Brownienne de Gibbs est vraie pour toutes les limites de sous-suites des ensembles de lignes avec H(x)=ex. Avec le résultat de la caractérisation dans Dimitrov (2021), cela prouve la convergence vers l’ensemble de lignes KPZ. En application du théorème 2.18 nous montrons que, dans la limite de bruit faible, l’ensemble de lignes log-gamma mis à l’échelle LN converge vers l’ensemble de lignes KPZ.

Funding Statement

The author was supported by Ivan Corwin through the NSF grants DMS-1811143, DMS-1664650 and also by the Minerva Foundation Summer Fellowship program.

Acknowledgements

The author is deeply grateful to Ivan Corwin for his consistent support and many useful suggestions. The author also thanks Evgeni Dimitrov for many helpful discussions and as well as Ivan Corwin and Vu Lan Nguyen for their efforts and initial contributions in a earlier draft of this project.

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Xuan Wu. "Tightness of discrete Gibbsian line ensembles with exponential interaction Hamiltonians." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 59 (4) 2106 - 2150, November 2023. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AIHP1307

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Received: 8 January 2022; Accepted: 17 August 2022; Published: November 2023
First available in Project Euclid: 3 November 2023

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/22-AIHP1307

Subjects:
Primary: 60B10
Secondary: 60B12

Keywords: Gibbs property , Line ensemble

Rights: Copyright © 2023 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

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