Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
2002-05-15
Mathematics
Probability
15 pages
Scientific paper
This note proves an upper bound for the fluctuations of a second-class particle in the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process. The proof needs a lower tail estimate for the last-passage growth model associated with the exclusion process. A stronger estimate has been proved for the corresponding discrete time model, so we take the needed estimate as a hypothesis. The process is initially in local equilibrium with a slowly varying macroscopic profile. The macroscopic initial profile is smooth in a neighborhood of the origin where the second-class particle starts off, and the forward characteristic from the origin is not a shock. Given these assumptions, the result is that the typical fluctuation of the second-class particle is not of larger order than n^{2/3}(log n)^{1/3}, where n is the ratio of the macroscopic and microscopic space scales. The conjectured correct order should be n^{2/3}. Landim et al. have proved a lower bound of order n^{5/8} for more general asymmetric exclusion processes in equilibrium. Fluctuations in the case of shocks and rarefaction fans are covered by earlier results of Ferrari-Fontes and Ferrari-Kipnis.
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