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Arka Adhikari

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arXiv2026

On the rigidity of sloped height functions in $d\ge 3$ and non-crossing surfaces

We consider integer-valued $\nablaϕ$ height functions, with general convex interactions, placed on a slope. Sheffield (2003) conjectured that for all slopes, such height functions are localized in dimensions $d\ge3$, in the sense of having tight fluctuations in finite volume, and admitting infinite-volume limits. We establish this conjecture when there are two coordinates on which the slope vector is zero and on which the interactions are even and low temperature. In this setting, we also prove the uniqueness, in the appropriate sense, of the infinite-volume limit and classify its extremal components. We further study the structural properties of the infinite-volume limit. We establish the entropic repulsion between macroscopic domain walls (boundaries of level sets), showing that they are maximally separated in a precise sense described by a rotation-of-the-circle dynamical system. Lastly, we show exponential decay of correlations in the extremal components. Our setup includes, as a special case, infinitely many zero-slope integer-valued surfaces (of dimension two or higher) conditioned not to cross. We deduce the existence and structural properties of the bulk Gibbs measure over such non-crossing surfaces with any given average spacing.

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arXiv2026

Graph distance and effective resistance of the random walk trace in four and five dimensions

In this paper, we prove that the fluctuations of the graph distance and the effective resistance on the trace of a random walk in four and five dimensions converge in distribution to a stable law. In previous work, the first and second authors proved that the corresponding fluctuations converge to a Gaussian distribution in dimensions six and higher. Taken together, these results reveal a phase transition between dimensions five and six. Our proof develops a novel coupling with long range percolation, and we expect this technique to find applications in a broad class of related models.

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arXiv2026

Phase transition on the fluctuation of the structure of random walk ranges

We investigate fluctuation phenomena for the graph distance and the number of cut points associated with random media arising from the range of a random walk. Our results demonstrate a sequence of dimension-dependent phase transitions in the scaling behavior of these fluctuations, leading to qualitatively different regimes, with a distinct phase transition in dimension 6. In particular, we remark that convergence in dimension 6 occurs with a non-standard rescaling.

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arXiv2026

Uniform-in-temperature locality estimates for weakly interacting quantum systems

The locality of thermal quantum states has emerged as a key input for applications to thermalization, response theory, and efficient simulability. Locality is either captured by the decay of correlations or by local indistinguishability, which allows to approximate local expectation values by those of local thermal states. Most techniques for deriving locality bounds deteriorate at small temperature, a physically highly relevant regime and so it is of interest to identify conditions for uniform-in-temperature bounds. Here we prove that a class of weakly interacting quantum Hamiltonians satisfies exponential decay of correlations and local indistinguishability uniformly in the temperature. The proof uses a low-temperature cluster expansion and a quantum version of a probabilistic swapping trick developed by the first author and Cao (Ann. Probab. 53, 2025) in the context of lattice gauge theories.

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arXiv2026

Strassen's LIL and a Phase transition for the capacity of the random walk under diameter constraints

We discuss the relationship between the capacity and the geometry for the range of the random walk for $d=3$. In particular, we consider how efficiently the random walk moves or what shape it forms in order to maximize its capacity. In one of our main results, we show a functional law for the capacity of the random walk. In addition, we find that there is a phase transition for the asymptotics of the capacity of the random walk when we condition the diameter of the random walk.

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arXiv2025

Capacity of the range of random walk: Moderate deviations in dimensions 4 and 5

We prove a moderate deviation principle for the capacity of the range of random walk in $\mathbb{Z}^5$. Depending on the scale of deviation, we get two different regimes. We observe Gaussian tails when the deviation scale is smaller than $n^{1/2} (\log n)^{3/4}$. Otherwise, we get non-Gaussian tails with a constant arising from a generalized Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality. This is analogous to the behavior of the volume of the random walk range in $\mathbb{Z}^3$. Our methods can also be applied to the $d = 4$ case to prove the moderate deviation principle in almost the full range of interest. This extends the work of Okada and the first author \cite{AdhikariOkada2023}, where they showed moderate deviations up to a deviation scale of $\log \log n$ times the standard deviation.

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arXiv2025

Spectral measure for uniform $d$-regular digraphs

Consider the matrix $A_{\mathcal{G}}$ chosen uniformly at random from the finite set of all $N$-dimensional matrices of zero main-diagonal and binary entries, having each row and column of $A_{\mathcal{G}}$ sum to $d$. That is, the adjacency matrix for the uniformly random $d$-regular simple digraph $\mathcal{G}$. Fixing $d \ge 3$, it has long been conjectured that as $N \to \infty$ the corresponding empirical eigenvalue distributions converge weakly, in probability, to an explicit non-random limit, %measure $μ_d$ on $\mathbb{C}$, which is given by the Brown measure of the free sum of $d$ Haar unitary operators. We reduce this conjecture to bounding the decay in $N$ of the probability that the minimal singular value of the shifted matrix $A(w) = A_{\mathcal{G}} - w I$ is very small. While the latter remains a challenging task, the required bound is comparable to the recently established control on the singularity of $A_{\mathcal{G}}$. The reduction is achieved here by sharp estimates on the behavior at large $N$, near the real line, of the Green's function (aka resolvent) of the Hermitization of $A(w)$, which is of independent interest.

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arXiv2025

The longest increasing subsequence of Brownian separable permutons

We establish a scaling limit result for the length $\operatorname{LIS}(σ_n)$ of the longest increasing subsequence of a permutation $σ_n$ of size $n$ sampled from the Brownian separable permuton $\boldsymbolμ_p$ of parameter $p\in(0,1)$, which is the universal limit of pattern-avoiding permutations. Specifically, we prove that \[\frac{\operatorname{LIS}(σ_n)}{n^α}\;\underset{n\to\infty}{\overset{\mathrm{a.s.}}{\longrightarrow}}\; X,\] where $α=α(p)$ is the unique solution in the interval $(1/2,1)$ to the equation \[\frac{1}{4^{\frac{1}{2α}}\sqrtπ}\,\frac{Γ\big(\tfrac{1}{2}-\tfrac{1}{2α}\big)}{Γ\big(1-\tfrac{1}{2α}\big)}=\frac{p}{p-1},\] and $X=X(p)$ is a non-deterministic and a.s. positive and finite random variable, which is a measurable function of the Brownian separable permuton. Notably, the exponent $α(p)$ is an increasing continuous function of $p$ with $α(0^+)=1/2$, $α(1^-)=1$ and $α(1/2)\approx0.815226$, which corresponds to the permuton limit of uniform separable permutations. We prove analogous results for the size of the largest clique of a graph sampled from the Brownian cographon of parameter $p\in(0,1)$.

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arXiv2024

Moderate Deviations for the Capacity of the Random Walk range in dimension four

In this paper, we find a natural four dimensional analog of the moderate deviation results for the capacity of the random walk, which corresponds to Bass, Chen and Rosen \cite{BCR} concerning the volume of the random walk range for $d=2$. We find that the deviation statistics of the capacity of the random walk can be related to the following constant of generalized Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities, \begin{equation*} \label{eq:maxineq} \inf_{f: \|\nabla f\|_{L^2}<\infty} \frac{\|f\|^{1/2}_{L^2} \|\nabla f\|^{1/2}_{L^2}}{ [\int_{(\mathbb{R}^4)^2} f^2(x) G(x-y) f^2(y) \text{d}x \text{d}y]^{1/4}}. \end{equation*}

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arXiv2024

Correlation decay for finite lattice gauge theories at weak coupling

In the setting of lattice gauge theories with finite (possibly non-Abelian) gauge groups at weak coupling, we prove exponential decay of correlations for a wide class of gauge invariant functions, which in particular includes arbitrary functions of Wilson loop observables.

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arXiv2023

An invariance principle for the 1D KPZ equation

Consider a discrete one-dimensional random surface whose height at a point grows as a function of the heights at neighboring points plus an independent random noise. Assuming that this function is equivariant under constant shifts, symmetric in its arguments, and at least six times continuously differentiable in a neighborhood of the origin, we show that as the variance of the noise goes to zero, any such process converges to the Cole-Hopf solution of the 1D KPZ equation under a suitable scaling of space and time. This proves an invariance principle for the 1D KPZ equation, in the spirit of Donsker's invariance principle for Brownian motion.

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arXiv2023

Deviations of the intersection of Brownian Motions in dimension four with general kernel

In this paper, we find a natural four dimensional analog of the moderate deviation results of Chen (2004) for the mutual intersection of two independent Brownian motions $B$ and $B'$. In this work, we focus on understanding the following quantity, for a specific family of kernels $H$, \begin{equation*} \int_0^1 \int_0^1 H (B_s - B'_t) \text{d}t \text{d}s . \end{equation*} Given $H(z) \propto \frac{1}{|z|^γ}$ with $0 < γ\le 2$, we find that the deviation statistics of the above quantity can be related to the following family of inequalities from analysis, \begin{equation} \label{eq:maxineq} \inf_{f: \|\nabla f\|_{L^2}<\infty} \frac{\|f\|^{(1-γ/4)}_{L^2} \|\nabla f\|^{γ/4}_{L^2}}{ [\int_{(\mathbb{R}^4)^2} f^2(x) H(x-y) f^2(y) \text{d}x \text{d}y]^{1/4}}. \end{equation} Furthermore, in the case that $H$ is the Green's function, the above will correspond to the generalized Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality; this is used to analyze the Hartree equation in the field of partial differential equations. Thus, in this paper, we find a new and deep link between the statistics of the Brownian motion and a family of relevant inequalities in analysis.

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arXiv2023

Local law and rigidity for unitary Brownian motion

We establish high probability estimates on the eigenvalue locations of Brownian motion on the $N$-dimensional unitary group, as well as estimates on the number of eigenvalues lying in any interval on the unit circle. These estimates are optimal up to arbitrarily small polynomial factors in $N$. Our results hold at the spectral edges (showing that the extremal eigenvalues are within $\mathcal{O} (N^{-2/3+})$ of the edges of the limiting spectral measure), in the spectral bulk, as well as for times near $4$ at which point the limiting spectral measure forms a cusp. Our methods are dynamical and are based on analyzing the evolution of the Borel transform of the empirical spectral measure along the characteristics of the PDE satisfied by the limiting spectral measure, that of the free unitary Brownian motion.

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arXiv2023

Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis for Generalized Wigner Matrices

In this paper, we extend results of Eigenvector Thermalization to the case of generalized Wigner matrices. Analytically, the central quantity of interest here are multiresolvent traces, such as $Λ_A:= \frac{1}{N} \text{Tr }{ GAGA}$. In the case of Wigner matrices, as in \cite{cipolloni-erdos-schroder-2021}, one can form a self-consistent equation for a single $Λ_A$. There are multiple difficulties extending this logic to the case of general covariances. The correlation structure prevents us from deriving a self-consistent equation for a single matrix $A$; this is due to the introduction of new terms that are quite distinct from the form of $Λ_A$. We find a way around this by carefully splitting these new terms and writing them as sums of $Λ_B$, for matrices $B$ obtained by modifying $A$ using the covariance matrix. The result is a system of self-consistent equations relating families of deterministic matrices. Our main effort in this work is to derive and analyze this system of self-consistent equations.

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arXiv2022

Spectral Gap Estimates for Mixed $p$-Spin Models at High Temperature

We consider general mixed $p$-spin mean field spin glass models and provide a method to prove that the spectral gap of the Dirichlet form associated with the Gibbs measure is of order one at sufficiently high temperature. Our proof is based on an iteration scheme relating the spectral gap of the $N$-spin system to that of suitably conditioned subsystems.

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arXiv2021

Wilson Loop Expectations for Non-Abelian Gauge Fields Coupled to a Higgs Boson at Low and High Disorder

We consider computations of Wilson loop expectations to leading order at large $β$ in the case where a non-abelian gauge field interacts with a Higgs boson. By identifying the main order contributions from minimal vortices, we can express the Wilson loop expectations via an explicit Poisson random variable. This paper treats multiple cases of interests, including the Higgs boson at low and high disorder, and finds efficient polymer expansion like computations for each of these regimes.

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arXiv2021

Dynamical Approach to the TAP Equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model

We present a new dynamical proof of the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) equations for the classical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass at sufficiently high temperature. In our derivation, the TAP equations are a simple consequence of the decay of the two point correlation functions. The methods can also be used to establish the decay of higher order correlation functions. We illustrate this by proving a suitable decay bound on the three point functions from which we derive an analogue of the TAP equations for the two point functions.

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