Harness processes and harmonic crystals

DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2005.12.004MaRDI QIDQ850031zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pablo A. Ferrari, Beat M. Niederhauser

Publication date 15 November 2006

Published in Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312402

linear Gaussian processes surface dynamics

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: In the Hammersley harness processes the real-valued height at each site i in Z^d is updated at rate 1 to an average of the neighboring heights plus a centered random variable (the noise). We construct the process "a la Harris" simultaneously for all times and boxes contained in Z^d. With this representation we compute covariances and show L^2 and almost sure time and space convergence of the process. In particular, the process started from the flat configuration and viewed from the height at the origin converges to an invariant measure. In dimension three and higher, the process itself converges to an invariant measure in L^2 at speed t^{1-d/2} (this extends the convergence established by Hsiao). When the noise is Gaussian the limiting measures are Gaussian fields (harmonic crystals) and are also reversible for the process.

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In the Hammersley harness processes the \(\mathbb R\)-valued height at each site \(i\in\mathbb Z^d\) is updated at rate 1 to an average of the neighboring heights plus a centered random variable (the noise). We construct the process ``à la Harris simultaneously for all times and boxes contained in \(\mathbb Z^d\). With this representation we compute covariances and show \(L^2\) and almost sure time and space convergence of the process. In particular, the process started from the flat configuration and viewed from the height at the origin converges to an invariant measure. In dimension three and higher, the process itself converges to an invariant measure in \(L^2\) at speed \(t^{1-d/2}\); this extends the convergence established by \textit{C.-T. Hsiao} [Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie Verw. Geb. 59, 39--53 (1982; Zbl 0458.60098)]. When the noise is Gaussian, the limiting measures are Gaussian fields (harmonic crystals) and are also reversible for the process.

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