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Virag: Continuum RSK Correspondence: From Brownian Motion to Random Geometry

Date: 2026-07-16

Time: 15:30 - 16:30

Zoom link: https://kva-se.zoom.us/j/9217561890

Speaker
Virag, University of Toronto

Abstract
In the KPZ universality class, random growth and last-passage models in the plane converge to a universal object known as the directed landscape – a random directed metric encoding optimal paths and last-passage times.

In this talk, I will describe a bijection that recovers the full directed landscape from a sequence of independent Brownian motions. This construction is the natural scaling limit of the classical Robinson–Schensted–Knuth (RSK) correspondence and gives a clean dictionary between simple noise and rich random directed geometry.

Joint work with Duncan Dauvergne.