Universality of cutoff for exclusion with reservoirs (Q6160457)

In this paper, the author studies exclusion processes with reservoirs on arbitrary networks. The author characterizes the spectral gap, mixing time, and mixing window of the processes in terms of certain simple spectral statistics of the underlying network. Using these results, the author establishes a nonconservative analogue of Aldous's spectral gap conjecture and proves that cutoff occurs if and only if a product condition is satisfied. The author also establishes cutoff phenomena in relative entropy, Hilbert norm, separation distance and supremum norm.