Diffusion approximation for equilibrium Kawasaki dynamics in continuum (Q939400)

The authors study an infinite system of interacting particles in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) with specified generator \(H\) of their dynamics. For each \(\varepsilon >0\) instead of \(H\) they consider a family of generators \(H^{(\varepsilon)}\) with a function \(a\) in the expression of \(H\) replaced by \(a_{\varepsilon}(\cdot):= \varepsilon^{-d} a(\cdot/\varepsilon)\), and apply also the time scaling due to the multiplication by \(\varepsilon^{-2}\). The main result states that under specified conditions (in particular, one admits for potential of pair interaction a singularity at zero) the generators of the scaled dynamics \(H^{(\varepsilon)}\) converge on a set of smooth local functions to the generator \(H^{(dif)}\) of the (infinite-dimensional) ``gradient stochastic dynamics'' as \(\varepsilon \to 0\). If the set on which the generators converge is a core for \(H^{(dif)}\), then one can claim the weak convergence of finite-dimensional distributions for the corresponding equilibrium processes.