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    Dynamical Phase Transitions for Flows on Finite Graphs
    (New York, NY [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2020) Gabrielli, Davide; Renger, D.R. Michiel
    We study the time-averaged flow in a model of particles that randomly hop on a finite directed graph. In the limit as the number of particles and the time window go to infinity but the graph remains finite, the large-deviation rate functional of the average flow is given by a variational formulation involving paths of the density and flow. We give sufficient conditions under which the large deviations of a given time averaged flow is determined by paths that are constant in time. We then consider a class of models on a discrete ring for which it is possible to show that a better strategy is obtained producing a time-dependent path. This phenomenon, called a dynamical phase transition, is known to occur for some particle systems in the hydrodynamic scaling limit, which is thus extended to the setting of a finite graph.
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    Exponential Moments for Planar Tessellations
    (New York, NY [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2020) Jahnel, Benedikt; Tóbiás, András
    In this paper we show existence of all exponential moments for the total edge length in a unit disk for a family of planar tessellations based on stationary point processes. Apart from classical tessellations such as the Poisson–Voronoi, Poisson–Delaunay and Poisson line tessellation, we also treat the Johnson–Mehl tessellation, Manhattan grids, nested versions and Palm versions. As part of our proofs, for some planar tessellations, we also derive existence of exponential moments for the number of cells and the number of edges intersecting the unit disk.
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    Modeling of Chemical Reaction Systems with Detailed Balance Using Gradient Structures
    (New York, NY [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2020) Maas, Jan; Mielke, Alexander
    We consider various modeling levels for spatially homogeneous chemical reaction systems, namely the chemical master equation, the chemical Langevin dynamics, and the reaction-rate equation. Throughout we restrict our study to the case where the microscopic system satisfies the detailed-balance condition. The latter allows us to enrich the systems with a gradient structure, i.e. the evolution is given by a gradient-flow equation. We present the arising links between the associated gradient structures that are driven by the relative entropy of the detailed-balance steady state. The limit of large volumes is studied in the sense of evolutionary Γ-convergence of gradient flows. Moreover, we use the gradient structures to derive hybrid models for coupling different modeling levels.