Applications of the Dirichlet Principle
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Thomas M. Liggett
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Article
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1987
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Springer
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English
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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