Applications of the Dirichlet Principle to finite reversible nearest particle systems

✍ Scribed by Thomas M. Liggett

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 936 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-2064
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00363513

✦ Synopsis

The Dirichlet Principle provides a variational expression for the survival probability of a supercritical finite reversible nearest particle system. We use this expression to derive improved bounds on this survival probability, and to develop techniques for comparing different systems with the same critical value.