Large gap asymptotics of the hard edge tacnode process

Abstract

A special type of geometric situation in ensembles of non-intersecting paths occurs when the non-intersecting trajectories are required to be nonnegative so that the limit shape becomes tangential to the hard-edge $0$. The local fluctuation is governed by the universal hard edge tacnode process, which also arises from some tiling problems. It is the aim of this work to explore the integrable structure and asymptotics for the gap probability of the hard edge thinned/unthinned tacnode process over $(0,s)$. We establish an integral representation of the gap probability in terms of the Hamiltonian associated with a system of differential equations. With the aids of some remarkable differential identities for the Hamiltonian, we are able to derive the associated large gap asymptotics, up to and including the constant term in the thinned case. Some applications of our results are discussed as well.