On Asymptotics for the Airy Process
Abstract
The Airy process A(t), introduced by Pr\"ahofer and Spohn, is the limiting stationary process for a polynuclear growth model. Adler and van Moerbeke found a PDE in the variables s1, s2, and t for the probability that A(0)<s1 and A(t)<s2. Using this they were able, assuming the truth of a certain conjecture and appropriate uniformity, to obtain the first few terms of an asymptotic expansion for this probability as t->infinity, with fixed s1 and s2. We shall show that the expansion can be obtained by using the Fredholm determinant representation for the probability. The main ingredients are formulas obtained by the author and C. A. Tracy in the derivation of the Painlev\'e II representation for the distribution function F2 plus a few others obtained in the same way.
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