Random walks on quasi one dimensional lattices: large deviations and fluctuation theorems

DOI10.1214/15-AIHP708MaRDI QIDQ520768zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandra Faggionato, Vittoria Silvestri

Publication date 6 April 2017

Published in Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2256, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aihp/1486544884

zbMATH Keywords

fluctuation theoremGallavotti-Cohen-type symmetrylarge deviationsMarkov chainmolecular motorquasi one-dimensional latticesrandom walks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Abstract: Several stochastic processes modeling molecular motors on a linear track are given by random walks (not necessarily Markovian) on quasi 1d lattices and share a common regenerative structure. Analyzing this abstract common structure, we derive information on the large fluctuations of the stochastic process by proving large deviation principles for the first--passage times and for the position. We focus our attention on the Gallavotti-Cohen-type symmetry of the position rate function (fluctuation theorem), showing its equivalence with the independence of suitable random variables. In the special case of Markov random walks, we show that this symmetry is universal only inside a suitable class of quasi 1d lattices.

Review text

Let \({G=(V,E)}\) be a finite oriented connected graph and \({\overline{v},\underline{v}}\) two fixed vertices from \(V\). The quasi-1D-lattice is the infinite oriented graph obtained by gluing countable copies of \(G\) such that the point \(\overline{v}\) of one copy is identified with the point \(\underline{v}\) of the next copy. Motivated by the investigation of the molecular motors on a linear track, the authors study the random walks on such quasi-1D-lattices. Continuing their own research [J. Stat. Phys. 157, No. 6, 1062--1096 (2014; Zbl 1310.82024)], the authors study the large deviations principle and the Gallavotti-Cohen type symmetry (i.e. when the LD rate function \(I\) satisfies the equality \({I(\vartheta)=I(-\vartheta)+c\vartheta}\) for some \(c\in\mathbb{R}\) and all \({\vartheta\in\mathbb{R}}\)). The authors obtain that Markov random walks on so called \((\underline{v},\overline{v})\)-minimal quasi-1D-lattices have the Gallavotti-Cohen type symmetry. Furthermore, outside the class of \((\underline{v},\overline{v})\)-minimal quasi-1D-lattices, the GS symmetry is almost everywhere broken.

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