Blocks in ASEP with step-Bernoulli initial condition

Abstract

This paper extends work by Tracy and Widom on blocks in the asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) to the case of step-Bernoulli initial condition. We consider the probability that a particle at site $x$ is the beginning of a block of $L$ consecutive particles at time $t$ in ASEP with step-Bernoulli initial condition. A Fredholm determinant representation for this probability is derived, and the asymptotics are computed for the KPZ regime.