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Circular support in random sorting networks
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by Duncan Dauvergne and Bálint Virág PDF
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 1529-1553 Request permission

Abstract:

A sorting network is a shortest path from $12 \cdots n$ to $n \cdots 2 1$ in the Cayley graph of the symmetric group generated by adjacent transpositions. For a uniform random sorting network, we prove that in the global limit, particle trajectories are supported on $\pi$-Lipschitz paths. We show that the weak limit of the permutation matrix of a random sorting network at any fixed time is supported within a particular ellipse. This is conjectured to be an optimal bound on the support. We also show that in the global limit, trajectories of particles that start within distance $\epsilon$ of the edge are within $\sqrt {2\epsilon }$ of a sine curve in uniform norm.
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Additional Information
  • Duncan Dauvergne
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M35 2E4, Canada
  • Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, 304 Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
  • MR Author ID: 641409
  • Bálint Virág
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, 40 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M35 2E4, Canada
  • MR Author ID: 1114287
  • Received by editor(s): May 22, 2018
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: October 31, 2018
  • Published electronically: November 15, 2019
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported by an NSERC CGS D scholarship.
    The second author was supported by the Canada Research Chair program, the NSERC Discovery Accelerator grant, the MTA Momentum Random Spectra research group, and the ERC consolidator grant 648017 (Abert).
  • © Copyright 2019 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 1529-1553
  • MSC (2010): Primary 60C05; Secondary 05E10, 68P10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/7819
  • MathSciNet review: 4068272