Professor Sunil Chhita - Durham University

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(2023). GOE fluctuations for the maximum of the top path in alternating sign matrices. Duke Mathematical Journal, 172(10), 1961-2104. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2022-0075 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1181101">Chhita, S., & Duits, M. (2023). On the domino shuffle and matrix refactorizations. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 401(2), 1417-1467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-023-04676-y </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1241796">Beffara, V., Chhita, S., & Johansson, K. (2022). Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond. Annals of Applied Probability, 32(2), 974-1017. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-aap1701 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1240952">Ayyer, A., & Chhita, S. (2021). Correlations in totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions. Transactions of the London Mathematical Society, 8(1), 493-526. https://doi.org/10.1112/tlm3.12039 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1258179">Chhita, S., & Toninelli, F. L. (2021). The domino shuffling algorithm and Anisotropic KPZ stochastic growth. Annales Henri Lebesgue, 4, 1005-1034. https://doi.org/10.5802/ahl.95 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1338077">Chhita, S., Ferrari, P., & Toninelli, F. (2019). Speed and fluctuations for some driven dimer models. Annales de l鈥橧nstitut Henri Poincar茅 D, 6(4), 489-532. https://doi.org/10.4171/aihpd/77 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1318203">Chhita, S., & Toninelli, F. L. (2019). A (2 + 1)-dimensional anisotropic KPZ growth model with a smooth phase. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 367(2), 483-516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-019-03402-x </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1343617">Beffara, V., Chhita, S., & Johansson, K. (2018). Airy Point Process at the liquid-gas boundary. Annals of Probability, 46(5), 2973-3013. https://doi.org/10.1214/17-aop1244 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1348816">Chhita, S., Ferrari, P. L., & Spohn, H. (2018). Limit distributions for KPZ growth models with spatially homogeneous random initial conditions. Annals of Applied Probability, 28(3), 1573-1603. https://doi.org/10.1214/17-aap1338 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1348730">Chhita, S., & Ferrari, P. L. (2017). A combinatorial identity for the speed of growth in an anisotropic KPZ model. Annales de l鈥橧nstitut Henri Poincar茅 D, 4(4), 453-477. https://doi.org/10.4171/aihpd/45 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374665">Chhita, S., & Johansson, K. (2016). Domino statistics of the two-periodic Aztec diamond. Advances in Mathematics, 294, 37-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2016.02.025 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1372877">Chhita, S., Johansson, K., & Young, B. (2015). Asymptotic domino statistics in the Aztec diamond. Annals of Applied Probability, 25(3), 1232-1278. https://doi.org/10.1214/14-aap1021 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1395522">Adler, M., Chhita, S., Johansson, K., & van Moerbeke, P. (2014). Tacnode GUE-minor processes and double Aztec Diamonds. Probability Theory and Related Fields, 162(1), 275-325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-014-0573-9 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1403002">Chhita, S., & Young, B. (2014). Coupling functions for domino tilings of Aztec diamonds. Advances in Mathematics, 259, 173-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2014.01.023 </a></li> <li><a href ="https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1374653">Chhita, S. (2012). The Height Fluctuations of an Off-Critical Dimer Model on the Square Grid. Journal of Statistical Physics, 148(1), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-012-0529-3 </a></li></ul> </div> </div>     </div> </div> </div> </div>  </main> <footer class="u-bg-white"> <div class="u-text-white u-py-5 lg:u-py-8"> <div class="container u-o-4 lg:u-o-5"> <div class="u-flex u-flex-col u-items-center u-justify-between md:u-flex-row"> <ul class="u-list-reset u-flex u-flex-col u-items-center u-gap-y-3 u-gap-x-2 u-mb-2 md:u-flex-row"> <li> <a class="btn btn-primary" href="/about-us/how-to-contact-us/"> Contact Durham University <svg class="icon u-ml-1" focusable="false"> <use xlink:href="/media/durham-university/site-assets/image/sprite.svg#feather--arrow-right"></use> </svg> </a> </li> <li> <a href="/about-us/" class="hocus:u-text-primary--dark link cta-link u-font-bold u-no-underline u-pr-2 hocus:u-underline u-block"> About Us <svg class="icon u-transition u-ml-1" focusable="false"> <use 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