Log-Gamma Polymer Free Energy Fluctuations via a Fredholm Determinant Identity
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Borodin, Alexei
Corwin, Ivan
Remenik, Daniel
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July 2013
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Borodin, Alexei, Ivan Corwin, and Daniel Remenik. “Log-Gamma Polymer Free Energy Fluctuations via a Fredholm Determinant Identity.” Communications in Mathematical Physics (July 3, 2013).
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Abstract
We prove that under n[superscript 1/3] scaling, the limiting distribution as n → ∞ of the free energy of Seppalainen’s log-Gamma discrete directed polymer is GUE Tracy-Widom. The main technical innovation we provide is a general identity between a class of n-fold contour integrals and a class of Fredholm determinants. Applying this identity to the integral formula proved in Corwin et al. (Tropical combinatorics and Whittaker functions. http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3489v3 [math.PR], 2012) for the Laplace transform of the log-Gamma polymer partition function, we arrive at a Fredholm determinant which lends itself to asymptotic analysis (and thus yields the free energy limit theorem). The Fredholm determinant was anticipated in Borodin and Corwin (Macdonald processes. http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4408v3 [math.PR], 2012) via the formalism of Macdonald processes yet its rigorous proof was so far lacking because of the nontriviality of certain decay estimates required by that approach.
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Original manuscript June 20, 2012
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-013-1750-x
