In the Spring 2017 me and Axel Saenz will continue with the Integrable Probability Reading Seminar. This time the topic will be “From random tilings to Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality.” In terms of content, this is not a continuation of the Fall’s seminar. In the Spring, the seminar’s aim is to give a user-friendly introduction to modern and rapidly developing topics in probability theory with connections to combinatorics, algebra, representation theory on one side, and statistical physics and many other applications on the other side.
Today marks a 5-year anniversary of the paper “Macdonald Processes” by A. Borodin and I. Corwin. It was posted on the arXiv on November 18, 2011 (arxiv.org/abs/1111.4408) and was subsequently published at Probability Theory and Related Fields (2014), Volume 158, Issue 1, pp 225–400. As of this day, Google Scholar counts 178 citations to this paper.
We present two new connections between the inhomogeneous stochastic higher spin six vertex model in a quadrant and integrable stochastic systems from the Macdonald processes hierarchy.