O'Connell's process as a vicious Brownian motion

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2011-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/1110.1845v2

Phys. Rev. E 84 (2011) 061144/1-11

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Mathematical Physics

REVTeX4, 26 pages, 1 figure, corrections and additions made for publication in Phys. Rev. E

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10.1103/PhysRevE.84.061144

Vicious Brownian motion is a diffusion scaling limit of Fisher's vicious walk model, which is a system of Brownian particles in one dimension such that if two of them meet they kill each other. We consider the vicious Brownian motion conditioned never to collide with each other, and call it the noncolliding Brownian motion. This conditional diffusion process is equivalent to the eigenvalue process of a Hermitian-matrix-valued Brownian motion studied by Dyson. Recently O'Connell introduced a generalization of the noncolliding Brownian motion by using the eigenfunctions (the Whittaker functions) of the quantum Toda lattice in order to analyze a directed polymer model in 1+1 dimensions. We consider a system of one-dimensional Brownian motions with a long-ranged killing term as a generalization of the vicious Brownian motion and construct the O'Connell process as a conditional process of the killing Brownian motions to survive forever.

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