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Existence of stationary ballistic deposition on the infinite lattice
Author(s) -
Chatterjee Sourav
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
random structures and algorithms
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.314
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1098-2418
pISSN - 1042-9832
DOI - 10.1002/rsa.21116
Subject(s) - lattice (music) , universality (dynamical systems) , conjecture , markov process , statistical physics , markov chain , mathematics , invariant (physics) , invariant measure , combinatorics , pure mathematics , physics , mathematical physics , quantum mechanics , statistics , ergodic theory , acoustics
Abstract Ballistic deposition is one of the many models of interface growth that are believed to be in the KPZ universality class, but have so far proved to be largely intractable mathematically. In this model, blocks of size one fall independently as Poisson processes at each site on thed $$ d $$ ‐dimensional lattice, and either attach themselves to the column growing at that site, or to the side of an adjacent column, whichever comes first. It is not hard to see that if we subtract off the height of the column at the origin from the heights of the other columns, the resulting interface process is Markovian. The main result of this article is that this Markov process has at least one invariant probability measure. We conjecture that the invariant measure is not unique, and provide some partial evidence.