Mirjana Vuletić
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The Gaussian free field and strict plane partitions
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2013,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AS, 25th International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2013)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2364
The Gaussian free field and strict plane partitionsArticle
Authors: Mirjana Vuletić 1
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Mirjana Vuletić
1 Department of Mathematics
We study height fluctuations around the limit shape of a measure on strict plane partitions. It was shown in our earlier work that this measure is a Pfaffian process. We show that the height fluctuations converge to a pullback of the Green's function for the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the first quadrant. We use a Pfaffian formula for higher moments to show that the height fluctuations are governed by the Gaussian free field. The results follow from the correlation kernel asymptotics which is obtained by the steepest descent method.