Entropic curvature and convergence to equilibrium for mean-field dynamics on discrete spaces

zbMATH Open1441.82017arXiv1908.03397MaRDI QIDQ5114798FDOQ5114798

Matthias Erbar, André Schlichting, Max Fathi

Publication date: 26 June 2020

Abstract: We consider non-linear evolution equations arising from mean-field limits of particle systems on discrete spaces. We investigate a notion of curvature bounds for these dynamics based on convexity of the free energy along interpolations in a discrete transportation distance related to the gradient flow structure of the dynamics. This notion extends the one for linear Markov chain dynamics studied by Erbar and Maas. We show that positive curvature bounds entail several functional inequalities controlling the convergence to equilibrium of the dynamics. We establish explicit curvature bounds for several examples of mean-field limits of various classical models from statistical mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03397

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zbMATH Keywords

random environmentsscaling limitrandom dynamicstrap models\(K\) process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

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