{"title":"Superconcentration for minimal surfaces in first passage percolation and disordered Ising ferromagnets","authors":"Barbara Dembin, Christophe Garban","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01252-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01252-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider the standard first passage percolation model on <span>({mathbb {Z}}^ d)</span> with a distribution <i>G</i> taking two values <span>(0<a<b)</span>. We study the maximal flow through the cylinder <span>([0,n]^ {d-1}times [0,hn])</span> between its top and bottom as well as its associated minimal surface(s). We prove that the variance of the maximal flow is superconcentrated, i.e. in <span>(O(frac{n^{d-1}}{log n}))</span>, for <span>(hge h_0)</span> (for a large enough constant <span>(h_0=h_0(a,b))</span>). Equivalently, we obtain that the ground state energy of a disordered Ising ferromagnet in a cylinder <span>([0,n]^ {d-1}times [0,hn])</span> is superconcentrated when opposite boundary conditions are applied at the top and bottom faces and for a large enough constant <span>(hge h_0)</span> (which depends on the law of the coupling constants). Our proof is inspired by the proof of Benjamini–Kalai–Schramm (Ann Probab 31:1970–1978, 2003). Yet, one major difficulty in this setting is to control the influence of the edges since the averaging trick used in Benjamini et al. (Ann Probab 31:1970–1978, 2003) fails for surfaces. Of independent interest, we prove that minimal surfaces (in the present discrete setting) cannot have long thin chimneys.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139103070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Wiener chaos expansion of the signature of a Gaussian process","authors":"Thomas Cass, Emilio Ferrucci","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01255-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01255-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We compute the Wiener chaos decomposition of the signature for a class of Gaussian processes, which contains fractional Brownian motion (fBm) with Hurst parameter <span>(H in (1/4,1))</span>. At level 0, our result yields an expression for the expected signature of such processes, which determines their law (Chevyrev and Lyons in Ann Probab 44(6):4049–4082, 2016). In particular, this formula simultaneously extends both the one for <span>(1/2 < H)</span>-fBm (Baudoin and Coutin in Stochast Process Appl 117(5):550–574, 2007) and the one for Brownian motion (<span>(H = 1/2)</span>) (Fawcett 2003), to the general case <span>(H > 1/4)</span>, thereby resolving an established open problem. Other processes studied include continuous and centred Gaussian semimartingales.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139103124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annealed quantitative estimates for the quadratic 2D-discrete random matching problem","authors":"Nicolas Clozeau, Francesco Mattesini","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01254-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01254-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study a random matching problem on closed compact 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with respect to the squared Riemannian distance), with samples of random points whose common law is absolutely continuous with respect to the volume measure with strictly positive and bounded density. We show that given two sequences of numbers <i>n</i> and <span>(m=m(n))</span> of points, asymptotically equivalent as <i>n</i> goes to infinity, the optimal transport plan between the two empirical measures <span>(mu ^n)</span> and <span>(nu ^{m})</span> is quantitatively well-approximated by <span>(big (text {Id},exp (nabla h^{n})big )_#mu ^n)</span> where <span>(h^{n})</span> solves a linear elliptic PDE obtained by a regularized first-order linearization of the Monge–Ampère equation. This is obtained in the case of samples of correlated random points for which a stretched exponential decay of the <span>(alpha )</span>-mixing coefficient holds and for a class of discrete-time sub-geometrically ergodic Markov chains having a unique absolutely continuous invariant measure with respect to the volume measure.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139103417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anomalous diffusion limit for a kinetic equation with a thermostatted interface","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01251-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01251-3","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>We consider the limit of solutions of scaled linear kinetic equations with a reflection-transmission-killing condition at the interface. Both the coefficient describing the probability of killing and the scattering kernel degenerate. We prove that the long-time, large-space limit is the unique solution of a version of the fractional in space heat equation that corresponds to the Kolmogorov equation for a symmetric stable process, which is reflected, or transmitted while crossing the interface and is killed upon the first hitting of the interface. The results of the paper are related to the work in Komorowski et al. (Ann Prob 48:2290–2322, 2020), where the case of a non-degenerate probability of killing has been considered. </p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139065674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sums of GUE matrices and concentration of hives from correlation decay of eigengaps","authors":"Hariharan Narayanan, Scott Sheffield, Terence Tao","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01250-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01250-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Associated to two given sequences of eigenvalues <span>(lambda _1 ge cdots ge lambda _n)</span> and <span>(mu _1 ge cdots ge mu _n)</span> is a natural polytope, the polytope of <i>augmented hives</i> with the specified boundary data, which is associated to sums of random Hermitian matrices with these eigenvalues. As a first step towards the asymptotic analysis of random hives, we show that if the eigenvalues are drawn from the GUE ensemble, then the associated augmented hives exhibit concentration as <span>(n rightarrow infty )</span>. Our main ingredients include a representation due to Speyer of augmented hives involving a supremum of linear functions applied to a product of Gelfand–Tsetlin polytopes; known results by Klartag on the KLS conjecture in order to handle the aforementioned supremum; covariance bounds of Cipolloni–Erdős–Schröder of eigenvalue gaps of GUE; and the use of the theory of determinantal processes to analyze the GUE minor process.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139065385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large deviation principle for quasi-stationary distributions and multiscale dynamics of absorbed singular diffusions","authors":"Weiwei Qi, Zhongwei Shen, Yingfei Yi","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01246-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01246-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139007053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetric cooperative motion in one dimension","authors":"Louigi Addario-Berry, Erin Beckman, Jessica Lin","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01244-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01244-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the relationship between recursive distributional equations and convergence results for finite difference schemes of parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). We focus on a family of random processes called symmetric cooperative motions, which generalize the symmetric simple random walk and the symmetric hipster random walk introduced in Addario-Berry et al. (Probab Theory Related fields 178(1–2):437–473, 2020). We obtain a distributional convergence result for symmetric cooperative motions and, along the way, obtain a novel proof of the Bernoulli central limit theorem. In addition, we prove a PDE result relating distributional solutions and viscosity solutions of the porous medium equation and the parabolic <i>p</i>-Laplace equation, respectively, in one dimension.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138567227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fleming–Viot couples live forever","authors":"Mateusz Kwaśnicki","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01247-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01247-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We prove a non-extinction result for Fleming–Viot-type systems of two particles with dynamics described by an arbitrary symmetric Hunt process under the assumption that the reference measure is finite. Additionally, we describe an invariant measure for the system, we discuss its ergodicity, and we prove that the reference measure is a stationary measure for the embedded Markov chain of positions of the surviving particle at successive branching times.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138567641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the ergodicity of interacting particle systems under number rigidity","authors":"Kohei Suzuki","doi":"10.1007/s00440-023-01243-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-023-01243-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we provide relations among the following properties: </p><ol>\u0000<li>\u0000<span>(a)</span>\u0000<p>the tail triviality of a probability measure <span>(mu )</span> on the configuration space <span>({varvec{Upsilon }})</span>;</p>\u0000</li>\u0000<li>\u0000<span>(b)</span>\u0000<p>the finiteness of a suitable <span>(L^2)</span>-transportation-type distance <span>(bar{textsf {d} }_{varvec{Upsilon }})</span>;</p>\u0000</li>\u0000<li>\u0000<span>(c)</span>\u0000<p>the irreducibility of local <span>({mu })</span>-symmetric Dirichlet forms on <span>({varvec{Upsilon }})</span>.</p>\u0000</li>\u0000</ol><p> As an application, we obtain the ergodicity (i.e., the convergence to the equilibrium) of interacting infinite diffusions having logarithmic interaction and arising from determinantal/permanental point processes including <span>(text {sine}_{2})</span>, <span>(text {Airy}_{2})</span>, <span>(text {Bessel}_{alpha , 2})</span> (<span>(alpha ge 1)</span>), and <span>(text {Ginibre})</span> point processes. In particular, the case of the unlabelled Dyson Brownian motion is covered. For the proof, the number rigidity of point processes in the sense of Ghosh–Peres plays a key role.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"314 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138495212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retrospective Cohort Study on the Surgical Outcomes of Intracapsular Thyroidectomy Vs Standard Thyroidectomy.","authors":"S Meenakshi, M K Rajasekar, Sumitha Ramanathan","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04074-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04074-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The focal point of thyroidectomy surgery has always been to reduce the incidence of inadvertent damage to the recurrent laryngeal nerve(RLN). The intracapsular thyroidectomy is one such technique with minimum chance of injuring the nerve. To compare retrospectively the surgical outcomes between the two methods of thyroidectomy-coventional thyroidectomy Vs intracapsular thyroidectomy. Materials and methods-55 cases of benign thyroid disease for whom thyroidectomy was performed in our hospital between the period of 2019-2022 were compared retrospectively. Out of these 34 cases had undergone intracapsular thyroidectomy and 21 cases underwent routine extracapsular thyroidectomy. The surgical outcomes including operation time, pain, postoperative infection, postoperative hypocalcemia, postoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis and mean hospital stay were analyzed. The mean operating time were very low in the intracapsular limb as compared to the other group. The pain and the mean hospital stay was also far lesser for the intracapsular limb. Both cohorts had no incidence of hypocalcemia. The incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy was very low in the intracapsular cohort (only 1 case of temporary unilateral RLN palsy), whereas it was higher in the routine extracapsular cohort (5 cases of permanent palsy). The risk of having vocal cord palsy (left/right) is 1.172 times more with conventional/standard thyroidectomy as compared to intracapsular thyroidectomy. Intracapsular technique is a much more rewarding method to perform thyroidectomy, without the risk of the recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy as compared to routine thyroidectomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20527,"journal":{"name":"Probability Theory and Related Fields","volume":"175 1","pages":"3792-3797"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10645788/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73759487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}