2020/10/06 by Cannizzaro, Giuseppe, Hairer, Martin · 1 citation
#60G #FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2010.02766
We introduce a 1+1-dimensional temperature-dependent model such that the classical ballistic deposition model is recovered as its zero-temperature limit. Its ∞-temperature version, which we refer to as the 0-Ballistic Deposition (0-BD) model, is a randomly evolving interface which, surprisingly enough, does \it not belong to either the Edwards--Wilkinson (EW) or the Kardar--Parisi--Zhang (KPZ) universality class. We show that 0-BD has a scaling limit, a new stochastic process that we call \it Brownian Castle (BC) which, although it is "free", is distinct from EW and, like any other renormalisation fixed point, is scale-invariant, in this case under the 1:1:2 scaling (as opposed to 1:2:3 for KPZ and 1:2:4 for EW). In the present article, we not only derive its finite-dimensional distributions, but also provide a "global" construction of the Brownian Castle which has the advantage of highlighting the fact that it admits backward characteristics given by the (backward) Brownian Web (see [Tóth B., Werner W., Probab. Theory Related Fields, '98] and [L. R. G. Fontes, M. Isopi, C. M. Newman, and K. Ravishankar, Ann. Probab., '04]). Among others, this characterisation enables us to establish fine pathwise properties of BC and to relate these to special points of the Web. We prove that the Brownian Castle is a (strong) Markov and Feller process on a suitable space of càdlàg functions and determine its long-time behaviour. At last, we give a glimpse to its universality by proving the convergence of 0-BD to BC in a rather strong sense.