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

DOI10.5802/AFST.1534MaRDI QIDQ2012075zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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