Convergence to equilibrium for a directed (1+d)-dimensional polymer

DOI10.5802/AFST.1534zbMATH Open1369.60068arXiv1504.02354OpenAlexW1559073873MaRDI QIDQ2012075FDOQ2012075

Authors: J. Sohier, Pietro Caputo 

Publication date: 27 July 2017

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a flip dynamics for directed (1+d)-dimensional lattice paths with length L. The model can be interpreted as a higher dimensional version of the simple exclusion process, the latter corresponding to the case d=1. We prove that the mixing time of the associated Markov chain scales like L^2log L up to a d-dependent multiplicative constant. The key step in the proof of the upper bound is to show that the system satisfies a logarithmic Sobolev inequality on the diffusive scale L^2 for every fixed d, which we achieve by a suitable induction over the dimension together with an estimate for adjacent transpositions. The lower bound is obtained with a version of Wilson's argument for the one-dimensional case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02354

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zbMATH Keywords

mixing timelogarithmic Sobolev inequalityexclusion processdirected polymeradjacent transpositions

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) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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