  Current fluctuations for the one-dimensional totally asymmetric exclusion
process (TASEP) connected to reservoirs of particles, and their large scale
limit to the KPZ fixed point in finite volume, are studied using exact methods.
Focusing on the maximal current phase for TASEP, corresponding to infinite
boundary slopes for the KPZ height field, we obtain for general initial
condition an exact expression for the late time correction to stationarity,
involving extreme value statistics of Brownian paths. In the special cases of
stationary and narrow wedge initial conditions, a combination of Bethe ansatz
and numerical conjectures alternatively provide fully explicit exact
expressions.
