Metastability of reversible condensed zero range processes on a finite set (Q2428506)

Given a finite set \(S\) of cardinality \(|S|\geq2\), consider a random process \(\{\eta^N_t,\,t\geq0\}\) on the set \(E_N\subset \mathbb N^{|S|}\) of configurations with total number of particles \(N\) such that a particle jumps from \(x\in S\), occupied by \(k\in\mathbb N\) particles, to \(y\in S\) with rate \(g(k)r(x,y)\), where \(g(0)=0\), \(g(1)=1\), \(g(k)=(\frac k{k-1})^\alpha\) for \(k\geq2\) (\(\alpha>1\)). Here, \(r\) is the rate of an irreducible random walk \(\{X_t,\,t\geq0\}\), which is reversible with respect to a measure reaching its maximum value on \(S_*\subseteq S\), with \(|S_*|\geq2\). Starting from a configuration \(\xi_N\) such that almost all particles are located at one site \(x\), the authors study the behaviour for large \(N\) of the process \(X^N_t\) describing the trajectory of the site concentrating almost all particles. They show (together with an asymptotic formula for the capacity of \(\{\eta^N_t,\,t\geq0\}\) on some sets of interest and other technical properties denoting a so-called tunnelling behaviour), that the law of \(\{X^N_{N^{1+\alpha}t},\,t\geq0\}\) under the probability induced on the Skorohod space \(D(\mathbb R_+,E_N)\) by \(\{\eta^N_t,\,t\geq0\}\) starting from \(\xi_N\) converges to the probability measure induced on \(D(\mathbb R_+,S_*)\) by a random walk on \(S_*\) starting from \(x\) and having rate proportional to the capacity of \(\{X_t, t\geq0\}\). The proof relies on estimates which are used to verify three conditions which, according to [\textit{J. Beltrán}, \textit{C. Landim}, J. Stat. Phys. 140, No. 6, 1065--1114 (2010; Zbl 1223.60061)], assure the tunnelling behaviour.