Slow decay of Gibbs measures with heavy tails (Q5961963)

From the author's abstract: We consider Glauber dynamics reversible with respect to Gibbs measures with heavy tails in the case when spins are unbounded. The interactions are bounded and of finite range. The self-potential enters into two classes of measures, \(\kappa\)-concave probability measures and sub-exponential laws, for which it is known that no exponential decay can occur. Using coercive inequalities we prove that, for \(\kappa\)-concave probability measures, the associated infinite volume semi-group decays to equilibrium polynomially and stretched exponentially for sub-exponential laws. This improves and extends previous results by \textit{S. Bobkov} and \textit{B. Zegarlinski} [``Distributions with slow tails and ergodicity of Markov semigroups in infinite dimensions'', Around the research of Vladimir Maz'ya. I. Function spaces. Dordrecht: Springer; Novosibirsk: Tamara Rozhkovskaya Publisher. International Mathematical Series (New York) 11, 13--79 (2010; Zbl 1200.60020)].