Mixing rates of particle systems with energy exchange (Q2905065)

The subject of the work is a rigorous derivation of transport equations of the hydrodynamic type from no-equilibrium statistical mechanics. In this paper, this problem is considered for the derivation of the hydrodynamic limit from the master equation (i.e., a mesocopic approximation derived from th microscopic model) for finite lattices of size \(N\), with certain energy associated with each site of the lattice. The energies change through a Markov's jump process with nearest-neighbor interactions. It is rigorously proved that the gap of the generator of the Markov's process scales as \(1/N^2\).