A two-scale approach to logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and the hydrodynamic limit (Q838319)

The authors use the logarithmic Sobolev inequalities (LSI) to deal with the coarse-graining of a lattice system with continuous spin variable, and one provides general conditions in order that a probability measure satisfies a LSI, from there one obtains a criterion for hydrodynamic limit. As an application example, one derives a LSI for a system of spins interacting by Kawasaki dynamics with a Ginzburg-Landau-type potential.