Generalized Young measures and the hydrodynamic limit of condensing zero range processes

Authors Michail Loulakis, Marios Stamatakis

Publication date 1 October 2019

Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Functional analysis in probabilistic metric linear spaces (46S50) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: Condensing zero range processes (ZRPs) are stochastic interacting particle systems that exhibit phase separation with the emergence of a condensate. Standard approaches for deriving a hydrodynamic limit of the density fail in these models, and an effective macroscopic description has not been rigorously established, yet. In this article we prove that the limiting triple

(p i, W, s i g m a)

of the empirical density, the empirical current, and the empirical jump rate of the ZRP satisfies the continuity equation

p a r t i a l_{t} p i = - m d i v W

in the sense of distributions. Here

(p i_{t})_{t g e q 0}

is a

w^{*}

-continuous curve of finite non-negative measures on the torus

m a t h b b T^{d}

,

s i g m a_{t} i n H^{1} (m a t h b b T^{d})

and

W_{t} = - a b l a s i g m a_{t}

is a vector-valued measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure, for all almost all

t g e q 0

. In order to obtain a closed equation we propose a generalization of Young measures and we prove that for symmetric ZRPs on the torus, the hydrodynamic limit of the density is a generalized Young-measure-valued weak solution

to a saturated filtration equation

. Furthermore we prove a one-sided two-blocks estimate and we give an equivalent criterion for its validity. Assuming the validity of the two-blocks estimate one obtains the equation

p a r t i a l_{t} p i = D e l t a P h i (p i^{a c})

for the empirical density, where

p i = p i^{a c} + p i^{p} e r p

is the Radon-Nikodym decomposition.

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