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We consider the multi-point equal time height fluctuations of the one-dimensional polynuclear growth model in half-space. For special values of the nucleation rate at the origin, the multi-layer version of the model is reduced to a process with a determinantal weight, for which the asymptotics can be analyzed. In the scaling limit, the fluctuations near the origin are shown to be equivalent to those of the largest eigenvalue of the orthogonal/symplectic to unitary transition ensemble at soft edge in random matrix theory.
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Sasamoto, T., Imamura, T. Fluctuations of the One-Dimensional Polynuclear Growth Model in Half-Space. Journal of Statistical Physics 115, 749–803 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOSS.0000022374.73462.85
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