We show that for all positive beta the semigroups of beta-Dyson Brownian motions of different dimensions are intertwined. The proof relates beta-Dyson Brownian motions directly to Jack symmetric polynomials and omits an approximation of the former by discrete space Markov chains, thereby disposing of the technical assumption beta>1 in [GS]. The corresponding results for beta-Dyson Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes are also presented.
We consider the edge statistics of Dyson Brownian motion with deterministic initial data. Our main result states that if the initial data has a spectral edge with rough square root behavior down to a scale $eta_* geq N^{-2/3}$ and no outliers, then after times $t gg sqrt{ eta_*}$, the statistics at the spectral edge agree with the GOE/GUE. In particular we obtain the optimal time to equilibrium at the edge $t = N^{varepsilon} / N^{1/3}$ for sufficiently regular initial data. Our methods rely on eigenvalue rigidity results similar to those appearing in [Lee-Schnelli], the coupling idea of [Bourgade-ErdH{o}s-Yau-Yin] and the energy estimate of [Bourgade-ErdH{o}s-Yau].
For general $beta geq 1$, we consider Dyson Brownian motion at equilibrium and prove convergence of the extremal particles to an ensemble of continuous sample paths in the limit $N to infty$. For each fixed time, this ensemble is distributed as the Airy$_beta$ random point field. We prove that the increments of the limiting process are locally Brownian. When $beta >1$ we prove that after subtracting a Brownian motion, the sample paths are almost surely locally $r$-H{o}lder for any $r<1-(1+beta)^{-1}$. Furthermore for all $beta geq 1$ we show that the limiting process solves an SDE in a weak sense. When $beta=2$ this limiting process is the Airy line ensemble.
We access the edge of Gaussian beta ensembles with one spike by analyzing high powers of the associated tridiagonal matrix models. In the classical cases beta=1, 2, 4, this corresponds to studying the fluctuations of the largest eigenvalues of additive rank one perturbations of the GOE/GUE/GSE random matrices. In the infinite-dimensional limit, we arrive at a one-parameter family of random Feynman-Kac type semigroups, which features the stochastic Airy semigroup of Gorin and Shkolnikov [13] as an extreme case. Our analysis also provides Feynman-Kac formulas for the spiked stochastic Airy operators, introduced by Bloemendal and Virag [6]. The Feynman-Kac formulas involve functionals of a reflected Brownian motion and its local times, thus, allowing to study the limiting operators by tools of stochastic analysis. We derive a first result in this direction by obtaining a new distributional identity for a reflected Brownian bridge conditioned on its local time at zero.
We study a natural continuous time version of excited random walks, introduced by Norris, Rogers and Williams about twenty years ago. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for recurrence and for positive speed. This is analogous to results for excited (or cookie) random walks.
Let $B^{alpha_i}$ be an $(N_i,d)$-fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index ${alpha_i}$ ($i=1,2$), and let $B^{alpha_1}$ and $B^{alpha_2}$ be independent. We prove that, if $frac{N_1}{alpha_1}+frac{N_2}{alpha_2}>d$, then the intersection local times of $B^{alpha_1}$ and $B^{alpha_2}$ exist, and have a continuous version. We also establish H{o}lder conditions for the intersection local times and determine the Hausdorff and packing dimensions of the sets of intersection times and intersection points. One of the main motivations of this paper is from the results of Nualart and Ortiz-Latorre ({it J. Theor. Probab.} {bf 20} (2007)), where the existence of the intersection local times of two independent $(1,d)$-fractional Brownian motions with the same Hurst index was studied by using a different method. Our results show that anisotropy brings subtle differences into the analytic properties of the intersection local times as well as rich geometric structures into the sets of intersection times and intersection points.