A System of PDEs for the Baik-Rains Distribution

Abstract

It has been discovered that the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili(KP) equation governs the distribution of the fluctuation of many random growth models, in particular, the Tracy-Widom distributions appear as special self-similar solutions of the KP equation. We prove that the anti-derivative of Baik-Rains distribution, which governs the fluctuation of the models in the KPZ universality class starting with stationary initial data, satisfies the KP equation. We start from a determinantal formula of the generating function of the KPZ equation, which satisfies the KP. Then we observe that the equation still holds in the large time limit.