Aging for the stationary Kardar--Parisi--Zhang equation and related models
Authors
- Deuschel, Jean-Dominique
- Orenshtein, Tal
- Moreno Flores, Gregorio R.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 60H15 35R60 82B44 82B26
Keywords
- PZ equation, Cole-Hopf solution, time correlation, aging, space-time stationarity, directed polymers in random environment, last passage percolation, totally asymmetric exclusion process, Edwards-Wilkinson equation, Ginzburg-Landau model
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Abstract
We study the aging property for stationary models in the KPZ universality class. In particular, we show aging for the stationary KPZ fixed point, the Cole-Hopf solution to the stationary KPZ equation, the height function of the stationary TASEP, last-passage percolation with boundary conditions and stationary directed polymers in the intermediate disorder regime. All of these models are shown to display a universal aging behavior characterized by the rate of decay of their correlations. As a comparison, we show aging for models in the Edwards-Wilkinson universality class where a different decay exponent is obtained. A key ingredient to our proofs is a characteristic of space-time stationarity - covariance-to-variance reduction - which allows to deduce the asymptotic behavior of the correlations of two space-time points by the one of the variances at one point. We formulate several open problems.
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