Riemann surface for TASEP with periodic boundaries

Abstract

The Bethe ansatz solution of periodic TASEP is formulated in terms of a ramified covering from a Riemann surface to the sphere. The joint probability distribution of height fluctuations at $n$ distinct times has in particular a relatively simple expression as a function of $n$ variables on the Riemann surface built from exponentials of Abelian integrals, traced over the ramified covering and integrated on $n$ nested contours in the complex plane.