Classification of the eternal solutions and multiple coalescing shocks in the KPZ fixed point

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We give a complete classification of the eternal solutions for the KPZ fixed point. Each of these is a (possibly infinite) max-plus convolution of the known eternal solutions, called Busemann functions. Specifically, we show that the space of eternal solutions is homeomorphic to a certain space of upper semicontinuous functions that encodes the weights of each of the Busemann functions. As a result, we show that the Busemann process gives a spectral decomposition of eternal solutions of the KPZ fixed point analogous to that for Hamilton-Jaccobi equations. The resulting evolution of the KPZ fixed point exhibits a shock at each of the boundaries between the different Busemann functions. Moving forward in time, the shocks coalesce, while moving backwards in time, additional shocks can form. We describe several geometric properties of this tree of shocks. This completes the study of eternal solutions initiated in earlier work of the second and third authors with Seppäläinen and continued in the previous work of the authors and in recent work of Rassoul-Agha and Sweeney.

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@misc{bhattacharjee2026classification,
  title = {{Classification of the eternal solutions and multiple coalescing shocks in the KPZ fixed point}},
  author = {Sudeshna Bhattacharjee and Ofer Busani and Evan Sorensen},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.26048},
  eprint = {2605.26048},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26048},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Classification of the eternal solutions and multiple coalescing shocks in the KPZ fixed point
AU  - Sudeshna Bhattacharjee
AU  - Ofer Busani
AU  - Evan Sorensen
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/30
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26048
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26048
AB  - We give a complete classification of the eternal solutions for the KPZ fixed point. Each of these is a (possibly infinite) max-plus convolution of the known eternal solutions, called Busemann functions. Specifically, we show that the space of eternal solutions is homeomorphic to a certain space of upper semicontinuous functions that encodes the weights of each of the Busemann functions. As a result, we show that the Busemann process gives a spectral decomposition of eternal solutions of the KPZ fixed point analogous to that for Hamilton-Jaccobi equations. The resulting evolution of the KPZ fixed point exhibits a shock at each of the boundaries between the different Busemann functions. Moving forward in time, the shocks coalesce, while moving backwards in time, additional shocks can form. We describe several geometric properties of this tree of shocks. This completes the study of eternal solutions initiated in earlier work of the second and third authors with Seppäläinen and continued in the previous work of the authors and in recent work of Rassoul-Agha and Sweeney.
ER  -

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