Stationary product measures for conservative particle systems and ergodicity criteria

DOI10.1214/EJP.V18-2513MaRDI QIDQ388981zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Richard Clemens Kraaij

Publication date 17 January 2014

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1302

zbMATH Keywords

couplingergodic measuresexclusion processmisanthrope processstationary product measureszero-range process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stationary stochastic processes (60G10) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We study conservative particle systems on W^S, where S is countable and W = {0, ..., N} or the natural numbers. The rate of a particle moving from site x to site y is given by p(x,y) b(eta_x, eta_y), where eta_z is the number of particles at site z. Under assumptions on b and the assumption that p is finite range, which allow for the exclusion, zero range and misanthrope processes, we show exactly what the stationary product measures are. Furthermore we show that a stationary measure mu is ergodic if and only if the tail sigma algebra of the partial sums is trivial under mu. This is a consequence of a more general result on interacting particle systems that shows that a stationary measure is ergodic if and only if the sigma algebra of sets invariant under the transformations of the process is trivial. We apply this result combined with a coupling argument on the stationary product measures to determine which product measures are ergodic. For the case that W is finite this gives a complete characterisation. For the case that W is the set of natural numbers we show that for nearly all functions b a stationary product measure is ergodic if and only if it is supported by configurations with an infinite amount of particles. We show that this picture is not complete, we give an example of a system where b is such that there is a stationary product measure which is not ergodic, even though it concentrates on configurations with an infinite number of particles.

Review text

The paper investigates the stationary and ergodic measures for the exclusion-inclusion-, zero range-misanthrope process. Finding all the ergodic measures for such systems is still an open problem, and here, it is shown that this question can be dealt with irrespective of the characteristics of the model. Broadly speaking, the main result can be summarized as follows. When the generator of the system generates a Markov process, then the measure is ergodic if the \(\sigma\) algebra of the sets, which are invariant under transformations of the process defined by the generator, is trivial.

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