The arctic circle boundary and the Airy process

Fluctuations and arctic curve in the Aztec diamond

Domino tilings of Aztec diamonds are known to exhibit an arctic phenomenon, namely a separation between frozen regions (in which all the dominoes have the same orientation) and a central disordered region (where dominoes are found without any apparent order). This separation was proved to converge, under a suitable rescaling, to the Airy process whose $1$-point distribution is the Tracy-Widom distribution. In this work, we conjecture, by means of numerical analysis, that the boundary between the frozen and disordered regions, converges, for the same rescaling, to the Airy line ensemble, a gene…

An arctic circle theorem for groves

In earlier work, Jockusch, Propp, and Shor proved a theorem describing the limiting shape of the boundary between the uniformly tiled corners of a random tiling of an Aztec diamond and the more unpredictable `temperate zone' in the interior of the region. The so-called arctic circle theorem made precise a phenomenon observed in random tilings of large Aztec diamonds. Here we examine a related combinatorial model called groves. Created by Carroll and Speyer as combinatorial interpretations for Laurent polynomials given by the cube recurrence, groves have observable frozen regions which we descr…

Arctic circles, domino tilings and square Young tableaux

The arctic circle theorem of Jockusch, Propp, and Shor asserts that uniformly random domino tilings of an Aztec diamond of high order are frozen with asymptotically high probability outside the "arctic circle" inscribed within the diamond. A similar arctic circle phenomenon has been observed in the limiting behavior of random square Young tableaux. In this paper, we show that random domino tilings of the Aztec diamond are asymptotically related to random square Young tableaux in a more refined sense that looks also at the behavior inside the arctic circle. This is done by giving a new derivati…

Fluctuations of the Arctic curve in the tilings of the Aztec diamond on restricted domains

We consider uniform random domino tilings of the restricted Aztec diamond which is obtained by cutting off an upper triangular part of the Aztec diamond by a horizontal line. The restriction line asymptotically touches the arctic circle that is the limit shape of the north polar region in the unrestricted model. We prove that the rescaled boundary of the north polar region in the restricted domain converges to the Airy$_2$ process conditioned to stay below a parabola with explicit continuous statistics and the finite dimensional distribution kernels. The limit is the hard-edge tacnode process …

Double Aztec Diamonds and the Tacnode Process

Discrete and continuous non-intersecting random processes have given rise to critical "infinite dimensional diffusions", like the Airy process, the Pearcey process and variations thereof. It has been known that domino tilings of very large Aztec diamonds lead macroscopically to a disordered region within an inscribed ellipse (arctic circle in the homogeneous case), and a regular brick-like region outside the ellipse. The fluctuations near the ellipse, appropriately magnified and away from the boundary of the Aztec diamond, form an Airy process, run with time tangential to the boundary. This pa…

多边形菱形铺砌的边缘统计，I：条形区域上高度函数的集中性

Edge Statistics for Lozenge Tilings of Polygons, I: Concentration of Height Function on Strip Domains

本文研究条形区域上均匀随机菱形铺砌，在极限北极边界至多一个尖点的条件下，证明高度函数与北极边界逼近极限形状的近乎最优集中估计，为后续证明多边形区域边缘统计收敛到 Airy 线系综奠定基础。