MIXING TIMES FOR THE TASEP IN THE MAXIMAL CURRENT PHASE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Schmid, Dominik
• 署名单位: University of Bonn
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0091-1798
• DOI: 10.1214/22-AOP1620
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1342-1379
• 关键词: simple exclusion process; last-passage percolation; current fluctuations; cutoff; Coalescence; COMPETITION; geodesics; particle; MODEL; tableaux

摘要

We study mixing times for the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) on a segment of size N with open boundaries. We focus on the maximal current phase and prove that the mixing time is of order N3/2, up to logarithmic corrections. In the triple point, where the TASEP with open boundaries approaches the Uniform distribution on the state space, we show that the mixing time is precisely of order N3/2. This is conjectured to be the correct order of the mixing time for a wide range of particle systems with maximal current. Our arguments rely on a connection to last passage percolation and recent results on moderate deviations of last passage times.