Introduction

I am an associated professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IM-UFRJ, Brazil), and a member of the Probability Group IM-UFRJ. My research interest lies on probability theory and stochastic processes, with a flavor of  statistical physics. Recently I have been working also on problems related to actuarial sciences. 

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In this short communication we show that basic tools from Malliavin calculus can be applied to derive the two-point function of the slope of the one-dimensional KPZ equation, starting from a two-sided Brownian motion with an arbitrary diffusion parameter, in terms of the polymer end-point annealed distribution associated to the stochastic heat equation. We also prove that this distribution is given in terms of the derivative of the variance of the solution of the KPZ equation.

In this article we consider the KPZ fixed point starting from a two-sided Brownian motion with an arbitrary diffusion coefficient. We apply the integration by parts formula from Malliavin calculus to establish a key relation between the two-point (correlation) function of the spatial derivative process and the location of the maximum of an Airy process plus a Brownian motion with a negative parabolic drift. Integration by parts also allows us to deduce the density of this location in terms of the second derivative of the variance of the KPZ fixed point. We further develop an adaptation of Malliavin-Stein method that implies asymptotic independence of the spatial derivative process from the initial data.


The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) fixed point is a Markov process that is conjectured to be at the core of the KPZ universality class. In this article we study two aspects the KPZ fixed point that share the same Brownian limiting behaviour: the local space regularity and the long time evolution. Most of the results that we will present here were obtained by either applying explicit formulas for the transition probabilities or applying the coupling method to discrete approximations. Instead we will use the variational description of the KPZ fixed point, allowing us the possibility of running the process starting from different initial data (basic coupling), to prove directly the aforementioned limiting behaviours.


Consider a sequence of n bi-infinite and stationary Brownian queues in tandem. Assume that the arrival process entering in the first queue is a zero mean ergodic process. We prove that the departure process from the n-th queue converges in distribution to a Brownian motion as n goes to infinity. In particular this implies that the Brownian motion is an attractive invariant measure for the Brownian queueing operator. Our proof exploits the relationship between the Brownian queues in tandem and the last-passage Brownian percolation model, developing a coupling technique in the second setting. The result is also interpreted in the related context of Brownian particles acting under one sided reflection.

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In this short article we will provide a sufficient and necessary condition to have uniqueness of the location of the maximum of a stochastic process over an interval. The result will also express the mean value of the location in terms of the derivative of the expectation of the maximum of a linear perturbation of the underlying process. As an application, we will consider a Brownian motion with variable drift. The ideas behind the method of proof will also be useful to study the location of the maximum, over the real line, of a two-sided Brownian motion minus a parabola and of a stationary process minus a parabola.


The aim of this article is to study the forest composed by point-to-line geodesics in the last-passage percolation model with exponential weights. We will show that the location of the root can be described in terms of the maxima of a random walk, whose distribution will depend on the geometry of the substrate (line). For flat substrates, we will get power law behaviour of the height function, study its scaling limit, and describe it in terms of variational problems involving the Airy process.


In this article, we prove a duality relation between coalescence times and exit points in last-passage percolation models with exponential weights. As a consequence, we get lower bounds for coalescence times, with scaling exponent 3/2, and we relate its distribution with variational problems involving the Brownian motion process and the Airy process. The proof relies on the relation between Busemann functions and the Burke property for stationary versions of the last-passage percolation model with boundary.


In this paper we will show how the results found in [Probab. Theory Related Fields 154 (2012)], about the Busemann functions in last-passage percolation, can be used to calculate the asymptotic distribution of the speed of a single second class particle starting from an arbitrary deterministic configuration which has a rarefaction fan, in either the totally asymetric exclusion process or the Hammersley interacting particle process. The method will be to use the well-known last-passage percolation description of the exclusion process and of the Hammersley process, and then the well-known connection between second class particles and competition interfaces.



The interplay between two-dimensional percolation growth models and one-dimensional particle processes has been a fruitful source of interesting mathematical phenomena. In this paper we develop a connection between the construction of Busemann functions in the Hammersley last-passage percolation model with i.i.d. random weights, and the existence, ergodicity and uniqueness of equilibrium (or time-invariant) measures for the related (multi-class) interacting fluid system. As we shall see, in the classical Hammersley model, where each point has weight one, this approach brings a new and rather geometrical solution of the longest increasing subsequence problem, as well as a central limit theorem for the Busemann function.


A Euclidean first passage percolation model describing the competing growth between k different types of infection is considered. We focus on the long-time behavior of this multitype growth process and we derive multitype shape results related to its morphology.


The one-dimensional nearest-neighbor totally asymmetric simple exclusion process can be constructed in the same space as a last-passage percolation model in ℤ2. We show that the trajectory of a second class particle in the exclusion process can be linearly mapped into the competition interface between two growing clusters in the last-passage percolation model. Using technology built up for geodesics in percolation, we show that the competition interface converges almost surely to an asymptotic random direction. As a consequence we get a new proof for the strong law of large numbers for the second class particle in the rarefaction fan and describe the distribution of the asymptotic angle of the competition interface.