respect to certain dynamic parameters, affects the macroscopic behavior of a system. In
particular we consider two classical exactly solvable models: Ulam's problem of the maximal
increasing sequence and the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process. For the first
model, using its representation as a Poissonian version of directed last passage percolation
on $\mathbb R^ 2$, we introduce the defect by placing a positive density of extra points …