CLT for NESS of a reaction-diffusion model

Probab Theory Relat Fields. 2024;190(1-2):337-377. doi: 10.1007/s00440-024-01293-1. Epub 2024 Jul 15.

Abstract

We study the scaling properties of the non-equilibrium stationary states (NESS) of a reaction-diffusion model. Under a suitable smallness condition, we show that the density of particles satisfies a law of large numbers with respect to the NESS, with an explicit rate of convergence, and we also show that at mesoscopic scales the NESS is well approximated by a local equilibrium (product) measure, in the total variation distance. In addition, in dimensions d 3 we show a central limit theorem for the density of particles under the NESS. The corresponding Gaussian limit can be represented as an independent sum of a white noise and a massive Gaussian free field, and in particular it presents macroscopic correlations.

Keywords: Exclusion process; Fluctuations; Non-equilibrium state; SPDEs.