Large deviations for the boundary driven symmetric simple exclusion process (Q1408674)

The authors study, as an example of nonequilibrium system, an one-dimensional exclusion process which allows exchange of particles with boundaries at different rates. It is shown that a dynamical large deviation principle [LDP] for the empirical density process holds with a rate function which measures fluctuations from the solutions of hydrodynamical equation. In \textit{C. Kipnis}, \textit{S. Olla} and \textit{S. R. S. Varadhan} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 42, 115-137 (1989; Zbl 0644.76001)], the corresponding result under the periodic boundary condition has been obtained. A technically new point of the present case is to handle the situation in which the invariant measure is not known explicitly. They also discuss a LDP for the empirical density under the invariant measure for the process, that is the equilibrium counterpart of the model. Its rate function \(V\) is derived from the rate function of dynamical LDP discussed above. It is shown that \(V\) coincides with the functional \(S\) defined by a static variational problem introduces by \textit{B. Derrida}, \textit{J. L. Lebowitz} and \textit{E. R. Speer} [J. Stat. Phys. 107, 599-634 (2002; Zbl 1067.82047)].