August 2022 Longest increasing paths with Lipschitz constraints
Anne-Laure Basdevant, Lucas Gerin
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Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 58(3): 1849-1868 (August 2022). DOI: 10.1214/21-AIHP1220

Abstract

The Hammersley problem asks for the maximal number of points in a monotonous path through a Poisson point process. It is exactly solvable and notoriously known to belong to the KPZ universality class, with a cube-root scaling for the fluctuations. Here we introduce and analyze a variant in which we impose a Lipschitz condition on paths. Thanks to a coupling with the classical Hammersley problem we observe that this variant is also exactly solvable. It allows us to derive first and second order asymptotics. It turns out that the cube-root scaling only holds for certain choices of the Lipschitz constants.

Le problème d’Hammersley consiste à étudier nombre maximal de points d’un processus ponctuel de Poisson par lequel un chemin monotone peut passer. Ce problème est exactement soluble et il appartient notoirement à la classe d’universalité KPZ, avec des fluctuations d’ordre la racine cubique du nombre de points pris. Nous introduisons et analysons ici une variante dans laquelle nous imposons une condition de Lipschitz sur les chemins. Grâce à un couplage avec le problème classique d’Hammersley, nous observons que cette variante est également exactement soluble. Ceci nous permet d’en déduire des asymptotiques du premier et du second ordre. Il s’avère que des fluctuations d’ordre racine cubique n’apparaissent que pour certains choix des constantes de Lipschitz.

Funding Statement

The first author was supported in part by ANR PPPP, ANR Malin, ANR ProGraM and Labex MME-DII. The second author was supported in part by ANR PPPP and ANR GRAAL.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the referee for her/his very careful reading. In particular it helped us to clarify the agreement between our asymptotics and the space-time scaling of the KPZ universality class.

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Anne-Laure Basdevant. Lucas Gerin. "Longest increasing paths with Lipschitz constraints." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 58 (3) 1849 - 1868, August 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AIHP1220

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Received: 13 January 2020; Revised: 23 September 2021; Accepted: 14 October 2021; Published: August 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 14 July 2022

MathSciNet: MR4452654
zbMATH: 1493.60018
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/21-AIHP1220

Subjects:
Primary: 60K35
Secondary: 60F15

Keywords: combinatorial probability , cube-root fluctuations , Hammersley’s process , Last-passage percolation , Longest increasing paths , longest increasing subsequences

Rights: Copyright © 2022 Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré

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