%0 Journal Article
%T Slow decorrelations in KPZ growth
%A Patrik L. Ferrari
%J Mathematics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/07/P07022
%X For stochastic growth models in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) class in 1+1 dimensions, fluctuations grow as t^{1/3} during time t and the correlation length at a fixed time scales as t^{2/3}. In this note we discuss the scale of time correlations. For a representant of the KPZ class, the polynuclear growth model, we show that the space-time is non-trivially fibred, having slow directions with decorrelation exponent equal to 1 instead of the usual 2/3. These directions are the characteristic curves of the PDE associated to the surface's slope. As a consequence, previously proven results for space-like paths will hold in the whole space-time except along the slow curves.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1350v2