Large deviation analysis of a droplet model having a Poisson equilibrium distribution

DOI10.1155/2015/287450MaRDI QIDQ274830zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Richard S. Ellis, Shlomo Ta'asan

Publication date 25 April 2016

Published in International Journal of Stochastic Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5091

zbMATH Keywords

droplet model large deviations Poisson equilibrium distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10)

Abstract: One of the main contributions of this paper is to illustrate how large deviation theory can be used to determine the equilibrium distribution of a basic droplet model that underlies a number of important models in material science and statistical mechanics. The model is simply defined.

K

distinguishable particles are placed at random onto the

N

sites of a lattice, where the ratio

K / N

, the average number of particles per site, equals a constant

c i n (1, i n f t y)

. We focus on configurations for which each site is occupied by at least one particle. The main result is the large deviation principle (LDP), in the limit where

K i g h t a r r o w i n f t y

and

N i g h t a r r o w i n f t y

with

K / N = c

, for a sequence of random, number-density measures, which are the empirical measures of dependent random variables that count the droplet sizes. The rate function in the LDP is the relative entropy

R (h e t a | h o^{*})

, where

h e t a

is a possible asymptotic configuration of the number-density measures and

h o^{*}

is a Poisson distribution restricted to the set of positive integers. This LDP reveals that

h o^{*}

is the equilibrium distribution of the number-density measures, which in turn implies that

h o^{*}

is the equilibrium distribution of the random variables that count the droplet sizes. We derive the LDP via a local large deviation estimate of the probability that the number-density measures equal

h e t a

for any probability measure

h e t a

in the range of these random measures.

Review text

Summary: In this paper, we use large deviation theory to determine the equilibrium distribution of a basic droplet model that underlies a number of important models in material science and statistical mechanics. Given \(b \in \mathbb{N}\) and \(c > b\), \(K\) distinguishable particles are placed, each with equal probability \(1 / N\), onto the \(N\) sites of a lattice, where \(K / N\) equals \(c\). We focus on configurations for which each site is occupied by a minimum of \(b\) particles. The main result is the large deviation principle (LDP), in the limit \(K \to \infty\) and \(N \to \infty\) with \(K / N = c\), for a sequence of random, number-density measures, which are the empirical measures of dependent random variables that count the droplet sizes. The rate function in the LDP is the relative entropy \(R(\theta \mid \rho^\ast)\), where \(\theta\) is a possible asymptotic configuration of the number-density measures and \(\rho^\ast\) is a Poisson distribution with mean \(c\), restricted to the set of positive integers \(n\) satisfying \(n \geq b\). This LDP implies that \(\rho^\ast\) is the equilibrium distribution of the number-density measures, which in turn implies that \(\rho^\ast\) is the equilibrium distribution of the random variables that count the droplet sizes.

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