Three-dimensional Gaussian fluctuations of non-commutative random surface growth with a reflecting wall

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the Gaussian fluctuations of a non-commutative random surface growth model with a reflecting wall, establishing determinantal correlation functions and convergence to a Gaussian free field, with connections to non-commutative random walks.

Contribution

It introduces a non-commutative random walk model that captures the surface growth and proves its height fluctuations converge to a Gaussian free field, revealing new links between surface growth and non-commutative algebra.

Findings

Correlation functions have determinantal structure along space-like paths.

Height fluctuations converge to a Gaussian free field.

The model's covariance functions are explicitly characterized.

Abstract

We consider the multi-time correlation and covariance structure of a random surface growth with a wall introduced in arXiv:0904.2607. It is shown that the correlation functions associated with the model along space-like paths have determinantal structure, which yields the convergence of height fluctuations to that of a Gaussian free field. We also construct a continuous-time non-commutative random walk on $U(\mathfrak{so}_{N+1})$, which matches the random surface growth when restricting to the Gelfand-Tsetlin subalgebra of $U(\mathfrak{so}_{N+1})$. As an application, we prove the convergence of moments to an explicit Gaussian free field and get the covariance functions of the associated random point process along both the space-like paths and time-like paths. In particular, it does not match the three-dimensional Gaussian field from spectra of overlapping stochastic Wishart matrices in arXiv:2112.13728 even along the space-like paths.