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Recently O’Connell introduced an interacting diffusive particle system in order to study a directed polymer model in 1+1 dimensions. The infinitesimal generator of the process is a harmonic transform of the quantum Toda-lattice Hamiltonian by the Whittaker function. As a physical interpretation of this construction, we show that the O’Connell process without drift is realized as a system of mutually killing Brownian motions conditioned that all particles survive forever. When the characteristic length of interaction killing other particles goes to zero, the process is reduced to the noncolliding Brownian motion (the Dyson model).
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The present author would like to thank T. Sasamoto and T. Imamura for useful discussion on the present work. A part of the present work was done during the participation of the present author in École de Physique des Houches on “Vicious Walkers and Random Matrices” (May 16–27, 2011). The author thanks G. Schehr, C. Donati-Martin, and S. Péché for well-organization of the school. This work is supported in part by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 21540397) of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Appendix: One-Dimensional Killing Brownian Motion
Appendix: One-Dimensional Killing Brownian Motion
By (1.12), we can put \(K_{i \xi k}(e^{-x/\xi})=e^{i k x} \widehat{K}_{i \xi k}(e^{-x/\xi})\) with \(\widehat{K}_{\nu}(z)=(2^{\nu} \Gamma(\nu+1/2)/\sqrt{\pi})\cdot\allowbreak \int_{0}^{\infty} du \cos(zu)/(1+u^{2})^{\nu+1/2}\). Changing the integral variable in (1.9) by \(k \sqrt{t/2} -i(x-y)/\sqrt{2t}=\mu\), the transition probability density can be written as
with \(\alpha(\mu) =\xi\sqrt{2/t} \{\mu+i(x-y)/\sqrt{2t}\}\). For |x|<∞, as \(x/\sqrt{t} \to0\), \(\alpha(\mu) \simeq\xi\sqrt{2/t}(\mu-iy/\sqrt{2t})\to0\), and \(\Gamma(i \alpha(\mu))\simeq\{i \xi\sqrt{2/t} (\mu-iy/\sqrt{2t}) \}^{-1}\). Then
in \(x/\sqrt{t} \to0\), since \(\widehat{K}_{0}=K_{0}\) by definition. It gives through (1.10)
with
By (1.13), for β>0, K 0(e −βx) is written as
where we have set s=e βv. In the limit β→∞, e −β(x−v)+e −β(x+v)=0, if v<x and v>−x, and e −β(x−v)+e −β(x+v)=∞, otherwise. Therefore
Then \(K_{0}(e^{-\sqrt{2t}u/\xi}) \simeq \sqrt{2t}u/\xi\mathbf{1}(u > 0)\) in t→∞, and
Put this result into (A.1), then we obtain the asymptotics (1.14).
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Katori, M. Survival Probability of Mutually Killing Brownian Motions and the O’Connell Process. J Stat Phys 147, 206–223 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-012-0472-3
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