The Bethe Ansatz for Sticky Brownian Motions

Abstract

We consider a diffusion in $\mathbb{R}^n$ whose coordinates each behave as one-dimensional Brownian motions, that behave independently when apart, but have a sticky interaction when they meet. The diffusion in $\mathbb{R}^n$ can be viewed as the $n$-point motion of a stochastic flow of kernels. We derive the Kolmogorov backwards equation and show that for a specific choice of interaction it can be solved exactly with the Bethe ansatz. We then use our formulae to study the behaviour of the flow of kernels for the exactly solvable choice of interaction.