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Cutoff for the Fredrickson-Andersen one spin facilitated model

Probability 2021-11-23 v2

Abstract

The Fredrickson-Andersen one spin facilitated model belongs to the class of Kinetically Constrained Spin Models. It is a non attractive process with positive spectral gap. In this paper we give a precise result on the relaxation for this process on an interval [1,L][1,L] starting from any initial configuration. A consequence of this result is that this process exhibits cutoff at time L/(2v)L/(2v) with window O(L)O(\sqrt{L}) for a certain positive constant vv. The key ingredient is the study of the evolution of the leftmost empty site in a filled infinite half-line called the front. In the process of the proof, we improve recent results about the front motion by showing that it evolves at speed vv according to a uniform central limit theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2103.00019,
  title  = {Cutoff for the Fredrickson-Andersen one spin facilitated model},
  author = {Anatole Ertul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00019},
  year   = {2021}
}
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