Two-dimensional Anisotropic KPZ growth and limit shapes

Abstract

A series of recent works focused on two-dimensional interface growth models in the so-called Anisotropic KPZ (AKPZ) universality class, that have a large-scale behavior similar to that of the Edwards-Wilkinson equation. In agreement with the scenario conjectured by D. Wolf (1991), in all known AKPZ examples the function $v(\rho )$ giving the growth velocity as a function of the slope $\rho$ has a Hessian with negative determinant ("AKPZ signature"). While up to now negativity was verified model by model via explicit computations, in this work we show that it actually has a simple geometric origin in the fact that the hydrodynamic PDEs associated to these non-equilibrium growth models preserves the Euler-Lagrange equations determining the macroscopic shapes of certain equilibrium two-dimensional interface models. In the case of growth processes defined via dynamics of dimer models on planar lattices, we further prove that the preservation of the Euler-Lagrange equations is equivalent to harmonicity of $v$ with respect to a natural complex structure.

arXiv comment16 pages, 3 figures

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