Space-Time Current Process for Independent Random Walks in One Dimension

Rohini Kumar

Published 2008-07-21, updated 2008-10-21Version 2

In a system made up of independent random walks, fluctuations of order $n^{1/4}$ from the hydrodynamic limit come from particle current across characteristics. We show that a two-parameter space-time particle current process converges to a two-parameter Gaussian process. These Gaussian processes also appear as the limit for the one-dimensional random average process. The final section of this paper looks at large deviations of the current process.