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Exponential convergence to equilibrium in supercritical kinetically constrained models at high temperature

Probability 2024-07-22 v2

Abstract

Kinetically constrained models (KCMs) were introduced by physicists to model the liquid-glass transition. They are interacting particle systems on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d in which each element of Zd\mathbb{Z}^d can be in state 0 or 1 and tries to update its state to 0 at rate qq and to 1 at rate 1q1-q, provided that a constraint is satisfied. In this article, we prove the first non-perturbative result of convergence to equilibrium for KCMs with general constraints: for any KCM in the class termed "supercritical" in dimension 1 and 2, when the initial configuration has product Bernoulli(1q)\mathrm{Bernoulli}(1-q') law with qqq' \neq q, the dynamics converges to equilibrium with exponential speed when qq is close enough to 1, which corresponds to the high temperature regime.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05844,
  title  = {Exponential convergence to equilibrium in supercritical kinetically constrained models at high temperature},
  author = {Laure Marêché},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05844},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, 4 figures

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