A Multi-Layer Extension of the Stochastic Heat Equation
A Multi-Layer Extension of the Stochastic Heat Equation
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DOI:
10.1007/s00220-015-2541-3
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发表时间:
2011-04
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
N. O’Connell;J. Warren
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作者:
N. O’Connell;J. Warren
Motivated by recent developments on solvable directed polymer models, we define a ‘multi-layer’ extension of the stochastic heat equation involving non-intersecting Brownian motions. By developing a connection with Darboux transformations and the two-dimensional Toda equations, we conjecture a Markovian evolution in time for this multi-layer process. As a first step in this direction, we establish an analogue of the Karlin-McGregor formula for the stochastic heat equation and use it to prove a special case of this conjecture.