Scaling limits for non-intersecting polymers and Whittaker measures
arXiv:1909.03219 · doi:10.1007/s10955-020-02534-y
Abstract
We study the partition functions associated with non-intersecting polymers in a random environment. By considering paths in series and in parallel, the partition functions carry natural notions of subadditivity, allowing the effective study of their asymptotics. For a certain choice of random environment, the geometric RSK correspondence provides an explicit representation of the partition functions in terms of a stochastic interface. Formally this leads to a variational description of the macroscopic behaviour of the interface and hence the free energy of the associated non-intersecting polymer model. At zero temperature we relate this variational description to the Marchenko-Pastur distribution, and give a new derivation of the surface tension of the bead model.
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