On a front evolution problem for the multidimensional East model

DOI10.1214/22-EJP870MaRDI QIDQ6387000arXivFDO

Authors Yannick Couzinié, Fabio Martinelli

Publication date 29 December 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/22-EJP870

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

arXiv classification

cond-mat.stat-mechmath-phmath.MPmath.PR

Abstract: We consider a natural front evolution problem the East process on $mathbb{Z}^d,dge2,$ a well studied kinetically constrained model for which the facilitation mechanism is oriented along the coordinate directions, as the equilibrium density $q$ of the facilitating vertices vanishes. Starting with a unique unconstrained vertex at the origin, let $S(t)$ consist of those vertices which became unconstrained within time $t$ and, for an arbitrary positive direction $mathbfx,$ let $v_{max}(mathbfx),v_{min}(mathbfx)$ be the maximal/minimal velocities at which $S(t)$ grows in that direction. If $mathbfx$ is independent of $q$, we prove that $v_{max}(mathbfx)=v_{min}(mathbfx{)}^{(1+o(1))}=gamma(d{)}^{(1+o(1))}$ as $qo0$, where $gamma(d)$ is the spectral gap of the process on $mathbb{Z}^d$. We also analyse the case in which some of the coordinates of $mathbfx$ vanish as $qo0$. In particular, for $d=2$ we prove that if $mathbfx$ approaches one of the two coordinate directions fast enough, then $v_{max}(mathbfx)=v_{min}(mathbfx{)}^{(1+o(1))}=gamma(1{)}^{(1+o(1))}=gamma(d{)}^{d(1+o(1))},$ i.e. the growth of $S(t)$ close to the coordinate directions is dictated by the one dimensional process. As a result the region $S(t)$ becomes extremely elongated inside $mathbb{Z}_{+}^d$. We also establish mixing time cutoff for the chain in finite boxes with minimal boundary conditions. A key ingredient of our analysis is the renormalisation technique of arXiv:1404.7257 to estimate the spectral gap of the East process. Here we extend this technique to get the main asymptotics of a suitable principal Dirichlet eigenvalue of the process.

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