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Phase transition of a Heat equation with Robin's boundary conditions and exclusion process

Probability 2013-03-26 v2 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

For a heat equation with Robin's boundary conditions which depends on a parameter α>0\alpha>0, we prove that its unique weak solution ρα\rho^\alpha converges, when α\alpha goes to zero or to infinity, to the unique weak solution of the heat equation with Neumann's boundary conditions or the heat equation with periodic boundary conditions, respectively. To this end, we use uniform bounds on a Sobolev norm of ρα\rho^\alpha obtained from the hydrodynamic limit of the symmetric slowed exclusion process, plus a careful analysis of boundary terms.

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@article{arxiv.1210.3662,
  title  = {Phase transition of a Heat equation with Robin's boundary conditions and exclusion process},
  author = {Tertuliano Franco and Patricia Gonçalves and Adriana Neumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.3662},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Accepted for publication in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society