Local Behavior of Airy Processes

Abstract

The Airy processes describe spatial fluctuations in wide range of growth models, where each particular Airy process arising in each case depends on the geometry of the initial profile. We show how the coupling method, developed in the last-passage percolation context, can be used to prove that several types of Airy processes have a continuous version, and behave locally like a Brownian motion. We further extend these results to an Airy sheet, by proving existence of a continuous version and local convergence to additive Brownian motion.