Glauber dynamics in continuum: A constructive approach to evolution of states (Q1948755)

The statistical theory of large systems is based on the assumption that the system states are described as probability measures on the corresponding phase space rather than pointwise, which is typical for the standard theory of dynamical systems. For such large systems, in order to obtain the description independent of the system size, one employs the models where the system is infinite and distributed over a noncompact manifold with positive density. In this paper, we have a description of the Markov evolution of states in terms of the correlation functions on both microscopic and mesoscopic levels. The latter was done by means of a nonlinear (kinetic) equation in the Vlasov scaling limit. The main object is the Glauber dynamics described by the proposed `generator'. The main results of the paper are found in Section 3. Section 4 shows the Vlasov scaling and obtains the Vlasov hierarchy for a linear evolution of the equation \((d/dt)r_t = L_Vr_t\), which are studied in the same scale of Banach spaces as those in which the correlation functions evolve. Section 5 is a brief summary of the presented results.