Spectral gap for zero-range dynamics

Annals of Probability

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1871-1902

  Landim, C ^a   Sethuraman, S ^b   Varadhan, S ^b  

^a IMPA   (Brazil)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet form; Ergodic measure; Particle systems; Zero range process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030352490     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1041903209     Document Type: Article

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