Uniform Poincaré inequalities for unbounded conservative spin systems: the non-interacting case. (Q2574583)

The non-interacting unbounded spin system with a conservation law is defined as follows. For a probability measure \(\mu \) on \(\mathbb R\) of the form \(\mu ( d\eta )= { {e}^{-V(\eta )}\over Z}\, d\eta \), with \(Z=\int {e}^{-V(\eta )}\, d\eta \), let \(\mu _N\) denote the \(N\)-fold product measure obtained by tensorization of \(\mu \) on \(\mathbb R^N\). The canonical Gibbs measure with density \(\rho \in \mathbb R\) is defined by conditioning \(\mu _N\) on the \((N-1)\)-dimensional hyperplane \(\sum _{i=1}^N \eta _i = \rho N\), i.e.\ \(\nu _{N,\rho } = \mu _N (\cdot \mid \sum _{i=1}^N \eta _i = \rho N)\). If we define the quadratic form \({\mathcal E}_{N,\rho } (F) = \sum _{i=1}^N \nu _{N,\rho }[(\partial _i F)^2]\), then for every \(N\) and \(\rho \) the Poincaré constant is given by \[ \gamma (N,\rho ) = \sup _F { {Var}_{\nu _{N,\rho }}(F)\over {\mathcal E}_{N,\rho } (F)} \] where the supremum is carried over all smooth, non-constant, real functions. We say the uniform Poincaré inequality holds whenever \(\sup _{N}\sup _{\rho } = \gamma (N,\rho ) < \infty \). The main result states that such an estimate holds when \(V\) is of the form \(V=\varphi +\psi \) with \(\psi \) a smooth bounded function and \(\varphi \) a uniformly convex function satisfying some mild conditions at infinity. The result is then applied to Ginzburg-Landau process to show diffusive scaling of the associated spectral gap.