Local equilibrium in inhomogeneous stochastic models of heat transport (Q315674)

The author extends the classical duality result of \textit{C. Kipnis} et al. [``Heat flow in an exactly solvable model'', J. Stat. Phys. 27, No. 1, 65--74 (1982; \url{doi:10.1007/BF01011740})] to inhomogeneous lattice gas systems, where the inhomogeneity means that either (A) the components of the system have different degrees of freedom or (B) the interaction rate between the components depends on their location. The author leverages the dual process to prove the existence of local equilibrium in systems forced out of equilibrium under various assumptions.