A one-dimensional interacting particle system is said to exhibit interface tightness if starting in an initial condition describing the interface between two constant configurations of different types, the process modulo translations is positive recurrent. In a biological setting, this describes two populations that do not mix, and it is believed to be a common phenomenon in one-dimensional particle systems. Interface tightness has been proved for voter models satisfying a finite second moment condition on the rates. We extend this to biased voter models. Furthermore, we show that the distribution of the equilibrium interface for the biased voter model converges to that of the voter model when the bias parameter tends to zero. A key ingredient is an identity for the expected number of boundaries in the equilibrium voter model interface, which is of independent interest. MSC 2010. Primary: 82C22; Secondary: 82C24, 82C41, 60K35.
We study current fluctuations in a one-dimensional interacting particle system known as the dual smoothing process that is dual to random motions in a Howitt-Warren flow. The Howitt-Warren flow can be regarded as the transition kernels of a random motion in a continuous space-time random environment. It turns out that the current fluctuations of the dual smoothing process fall in the Edwards-Wilkinson universality class, where the fluctuations occur on the scale t 1/4 and the limit is a universal Gaussian process. Along the way, we prove a quenched invariance principle for a random motion in the Howitt-Warren flow. Meanwhile, the centered quenched mean process of the random motion also converges on the scale t
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