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Entropy dissipation estimates for inhomogeneous zero-range processes

2021; Institute of Mathematical Statistics; Volume: 31; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1214/20-aap1646

2168-8737

Jonathan Hermon, Justin Salez,

Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

Introduced by Lu and Yau (Comm. Math. Phys. 156 (1993) 399–433), the martingale decomposition method is a powerful recursive strategy that has produced sharp log-Sobolev inequalities for homogeneous particle systems. However, the intractability of certain covariance terms has so far precluded applications to heterogeneous models. Here we demonstrate that the existence of an appropriate coupling can be exploited to bypass this limitation effortlessly. Our main result is a dimension-free modified log-Sobolev inequality for zero-range processes on the complete graph, under the only requirement that all rate increments lie in a compact subset of (0,∞). This settles an open problem raised by Caputo and Posta (Probab. Theory Related Fields 139 (2007) 65–87) and reiterated by Caputo, Dai Pra and Posta (Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat. 45 (2009) 734–753). We believe that our approach is simple enough to be applicable to many systems.