Large gap asymptotics of the hard edge tacnode process

TL;DR

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the gap probability in the hard edge tacnode process, revealing its integrable structure and deriving precise large gap asymptotics including the constant term.

Contribution

It establishes an integral representation of the gap probability using Hamiltonian systems and derives large gap asymptotics for the hard edge tacnode process, including the thinned case.

Findings

Derived integral representation of gap probability.

Obtained large gap asymptotics including constant terms.

Explored applications of the asymptotic results.

Abstract

A special type of geometric situation in ensembles of non-intersecting paths occurs when the non-intersecting trajectories are required to be nonnegative so that the limit shape becomes tangential to the hard-edge $0$. The local fluctuation is governed by the universal hard edge tacnode process, which also arises from some tiling problems. It is the aim of this work to explore the integrable structure and asymptotics for the gap probability of the hard edge thinned/unthinned tacnode process over $(0,s)$. We establish an integral representation of the gap probability in terms of the Hamiltonian associated with a system of differential equations. With the aids of some remarkable differential identities for the Hamiltonian, we are able to derive the associated large gap asymptotics, up to and including the constant term in the thinned case. Some applications of our results are discussed as well.