An Invariance Principle to Ferrari-Spohn Diffusions

Ioffe, Dmitry ; Shlosman, Senya ; Velenik, Yvan

In: Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2015, vol. 336, no. 2, p. 905-932

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    Summary
    We prove an invariance principle for a class of tilted 1+1-dimensional SOS models or, equivalently, for a class of tilted random walk bridges in $${\mathbb{Z}_+}$$ Z + . The limiting objects are stationary reversible ergodic diffusions with drifts given by the logarithmic derivatives of the ground states of associated singular Sturm-Liouville operators. In the case of a linear area tilt, we recover the Ferrari-Spohn diffusion with log-Airy drift, which was derived in Ferrari and Spohn (Ann Probab 33(4):1302—1325, 2005) in the context of Brownian motions conditioned to stay above circular and parabolic barriers.