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COMMUNICATIONS ON PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 466-537Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20347
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- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- National Science Foundation
- Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) [OISE-07-30136]
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We consider the solution of the stochastic heat equation partial derivative(T) Z = 1/2 partial derivative(2)(X) Z - Z(W) over dot with delta function initial condition Z(T = 0, X) = delta(X=0) whose logarithm, with appropriate normalization, is the free energy of the continuum directed polymer, or the Hopf-Cole solution of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with narrow wedge initial conditions. We obtain explicit formulas for the one-dimensional marginal distributions, the crossover distributions, which interpolate between a standard Gaussian distribution (small time) and the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution (large time). The proof is via a rigorous steepest-descent analysis of the Tracy-Widom formula for the asymmetric simple exclusion process with antishock initial data, which is shown to converge to the continuum equations in an appropriate weakly asymmetric limit. The limit also describes the crossover behavior between the symmetric and asymmetric exclusion processes. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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