Spectral gap and logarithmic Sobolev inequality for unbounded conservative spin systems (Q1863420)

For a system of unbounded spins over the \(d\)-dimensional cube \(\{1,\ldots,L\}^d\), \(L\geq 1\), the paper considers evolutions governed by reversible conservative Ginzburg-Landau processes having Gaussian potential perturbed additively by bounded smooth functions \(F:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) with bounded derivative. The upper bounds of the form \(cL^2\), \(c\) being a constant depending on \(F\) and independent of \(d\), are established for the inverses of the spectral gap of the generators and of the constants in logarithmic Sobolev inequalities related to the processes (in the latter case \(||F''||_{\infty}<\infty\) is required). Following the approach developed by \textit{S. L. Lu} and \textit{H. T. Yau} [Commun. Math. Phys. 156, 399-433 (1993; Zbl 0779.60078)], the authors overcome the technical difficulties due to unboundedness of spins. The main ingredients of the proof are a local CLT uniform over the parameter and some sharp large deviations estimates.