Tracy.Widom fluctuations for perturbations of the log-gamma polymer in intermediate disorder

Citation
Krishnan Arjun et Quastel Jeremy, Tracy.Widom fluctuations for perturbations of the log-gamma polymer in intermediate disorder, Annals of applied probability , 28(6), 2018, pp. 3736-3764
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
28
Issue
6
Year of publication
2018
Pages
3736 - 3764
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
The free-energy fluctuations of the discrete directed polymer in 1+1 dimensions is conjecturally in the Tracy.Widom universality class at all finite temperatures and in the intermediate disorder regime. Seppäläinen.s log-gamma polymer was proven to have GUE Tracy.Widom fluctuations in a restricted temperature range by Borodin, Corwin and Remenik [Comm. Math. Phys. 324 (2013) 215.232].We remove this restriction, and extend this result into the intermediate disorder regime.This result also identifies the scale of fluctuations of the log-gamma polymer in the intermediate disorder regime, and thus verifies a conjecture of Alberts, Khanin and Quastel [Ann. Probab. 42 (2014) 1212.1256].Using a perturbation argument, we show that any polymer that matches a certain number of moments with the log-gamma polymer also has Tracy.Widom fluctuations in intermediate disorder.