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Blocks in the asymmetric simple exclusion process
Probability| Speaker: | Craig A. Tracy, UC Davis |
| Related Webpage: | https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~tracy/ |
| Location: | 1147 MSB |
| Start time: | Wed, Oct 4 2017, 4:10PM |
In earlier work Tracy and Widom obtained formulas for the probability in the asymmetric simple exclusion process that the $m$th particle from the left is at site $x$ at time $t$. They were expressed in general as sums of multiple integrals and, for the case of step initial condition, as an integral involving a Fredholm determinant. In the present work these results are generalized to the case where the $m$th particle is the left-most one in a contiguous block of $L$ particles. The earlier work depended in a crucial way on two combinatorial identities, and the present work begins with a generalization of these identities to general $L$. See arXiv:1707.04927 [pdf, ps, other].