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Universal Central Limit Theorem for non-exchangeable interacting diffusions

Probability 2026-07-08 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study non-exchangeable interacting diffusions with pairwise interaction strengths encoded by a sequence of matrices. Under suitable structural and denseness conditions on these matrices, we prove a universal Central Limit Theorem for the global fluctuation field. As the number of particles nn becomes large, it converges in distribution to the unique solution of a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE), the same Gaussian limit as in the exchangeable mean field case. The result applies, for instance, to scaled adjacency matrices of mnm_n-regular graphs when mn/nm_n/\sqrt{n}\to\infty. A spatial interaction model shows that the n1/2n^{-1/2} denseness threshold is sharp. The proof proceeds with an analysis in negative Sobolev spaces, building on sharp quantitative propagation of chaos results together with functional inequalities.

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@article{arxiv.2607.07598,
  title  = {Universal Central Limit Theorem for non-exchangeable interacting diffusions},
  author = {Mykhaylo Shkolnikov and Lane Chun Yeung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07598},
  year   = {2026}
}