School of Mathematics Seminars and Lectures
`Bigeodesics in first and last passage percolation'
by Prof. Christopher Hoffman (Washington, USA)
Thursday, February 14, 2019
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(Asia/Kolkata)
at AG-77
at AG-77
Description |
Abstract First and last passage percolation are statistical physics models of random growth. These models are widely believed to belong to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. I will define these two models and talk about what it means to be in this universality class. A longstanding question about these models is whether they have have bi-infinite geodesics. This question is of interest to physicists due to its connections to the Ising model. I will discuss the recent progress on this question. This talk is based on joint work with Daniel Ahlberg, Riddhipratim Basu and Allan Sly. |