Tokyo Probability Seminar

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Date, time & place Monday 16:00 - 17:30 126Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) Makiko Sasada, Shuta Nakajima

2024/02/05

17:00-18:30   Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Sunder Sethuraman (University of Arizona)
Atypical behaviors of a tagged particle in asymmetric simple exclusion (English)
[ Abstract ]
Informally, the one dimensional asymmetric simple exclusion process follows a collection of continuous time random walks on Z interacting as follows: When a clock rings, the particle jumps to the nearest right or left with probabilities p or q=1-p, if that location is unoccupied. If occupied, the jump is suppressed and clocks start again.

In this system, seen as a toy model of `traffic', the motion of a distinguished or `tagged' particle is of interest. Starting from a stationary state, we study the `typical' behavior of a tagged particle, conditioned to deviate to an `atypical' position at time Nt, for a t>0 fixed. In the course of results, an `upper tail' large deviation principle, in scale N, is established for the position of the tagged particle. Also, with respect to `lower tail' events, in the totally asymmetric version, a connection is made with a `nonentropy' solution of the associated hydrodynamic Burgers equation. This is work with S.R.S. Varadhan (arXiv:2311.0780).