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Quenched scaling limits of trap models

Probability 2009-02-20 v1

Abstract

Fix a strictly positive measure WW on the dd-dimensional torus \bbTd\bb T^d. For an integer N1N\ge 1, denote by WxNW^N_x, x=(x1,...,xd)x=(x_1, ..., x_d), 0xi<N0\le x_i <N, the WW-measure of the cube [x/N,(x+\mb1)/N)[x/N, (x+\mb 1)/N), where \mb1\mb 1 is the vector with all components equal to 1. In dimension 1, we prove that the hydrodynamic behavior of a superposition of independent random walks, in which a particle jumps from x/Nx/N to one of its neighbors at rate (NWxN)1(N W^N_x)^{-1}, is described in the diffusive scaling by the linear differential equation tρ=(d/dW)(d/dx)ρ\partial_t \rho = (d/dW)(d/dx) \rho. In dimension d>1d>1, if WW is a finite discrete measure, W=i1wiδxiW=\sum_{i\ge 1} w_i \delta_{x_i}, we prove that the random walk which jumps from x/Nx/N uniformly to one of its neighbors at rate (WxN)1(W^N_x)^{-1} has a metastable behavior, as defined in \cite{bl1}, described by the KK-process introduced in \cite{fm1}.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3334,
  title  = {Quenched scaling limits of trap models},
  author = {M. Jara and C. Landim and A. Teixeira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3334},
  year   = {2009}
}
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