2004/06/01 by Takashi Imamura, T. Imamura, T. Sasamoto +1 · 4 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Random Matrices and Applications #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech #math-ph #math.MP #math.PR #nlin.SI
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.07.030
published as Nucl. Phys. B 699 (2004) 503-544 · 43 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2004/06/01 · openalex publication_date 2004/08/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The one-dimensional polynuclear growth model with external sources at edges is studied. The height fluctuation at the origin is known to be given by either the Gaussian, the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution, or certain distributions called GOE2 and F0, depending on the strength of the sources. We generalize these results and show that the scaling limit of the multi-point equal time height fluctuations of the model are described by the Fredholm determinant, of which the limiting kernel is explicitly obtained. In particular we obtain two new kernels, describing transitions between the above one-point distributions. One expresses the transition from the GOE2 to the GUE Tracy-Widom distribution or to the Gaussian; the other the transition from F0 to the Gaussian. The results specialized to the fluctuation at the origin are shown to be equivalent to the previously obtained ones via the Riemann-Hilbert method.