Hydrodynamic limit of symmetric exclusion processes in inhomogeneous media

A. Faggionato

Published 2010-03-29Version 1

In \cite{J} M. Jara has presented a method, reducing the proof of the hydrodynamic limit of symmetric exclusion processes to an homogenization problem, as unified approach to recent works on the field as \cite{N}, \cite{F1}, \cite{F2} and \cite{FJL}. Although not stated in \cite{J}, the reduction of the hydrodynamic limit to an homogenization problem was already obtained (in a different way) in \cite{N}, \cite{F1}. This alternative and very simple relation between the two problems goes back to an idea of K.\ Nagy \cite{N}, is stated in \cite{F1}[Section B] for exclusion processes on $\bbZ^d$ and, as stressed in \cite{F2}, is completely general. The above relation has been applied to \cite{N}, \cite{F1}, \cite{F2} and \cite{FJL} and could be applied to other symmetric exclusion processes, mentioned in \cite{J}. In this short note we briefly recall this unified approach in a complete general setting. Finally, we recall how the homogenization problem has been solved in the above previous works.