Hydrodynamic limit of gradient exclusion processes with conductances (Q849234)

The authors investigate the hydrodynamic behavior of interacting particle systems with random conductance. If one considers the nearest-neighbor, one-dimensional exclusion process on \(N^{-1}\mathbb Z\) in which a particle jumps from \(x/N\) to \((x+1)/N\) at rate given by \(\alpha\)-stable subordinator \(W\), with \(\alpha<1\), we can see that on the diffusive time scale, as the parameter \(N\rightarrow\infty\) , the empirical density follows the differential equation where the operator \((d/dx)(d/dW)\) appears. This operator, in contradiction to the operator \((d/dW)(d/dx)\), has not been examined yet in the case when \(W\) exhibit jumps (that is a \textit{normal} situation in the case of Lévy processes), thus the authors present its successive features in the paper. For example in the Theorem 1 they prove that \((d/dx)(d/dW)\), defined in an appropriate domain, is non-positive, self-adjoint and dissipative. The eigenvalues of \(-(d/dx)(d/dW)\) are countable and have finite multiplicity.