Hydrodynamic limit for particle systems with degenerate rates without exclusive constraints

Makiko Sasada

Published 2010-08-23Version 1

We consider the hydrodynamic behavior of some conservative particle systems with degenerate jump rates without exclusive constraints. More precisely, we study the particle systems without restrictions on the total number of particles per site with nearest neighbor exchange rates which vanish for certain configurations. Due to the degeneracy of the rates, there exists blocked configurations which do not evolve under the dynamics and all of the hyperplanes of configurations with a fixed number particles can be decomposed into different irreducible sets. We show that, for initial profiles smooth enough and bounded away from zero, the macroscopic density profile evolves under the diffusive time scaling according to a nonlinear diffusion equation (which we call the modified porous medium equation). The proof is based on the Relative Entropy method but it cannot be straightforwardly applied because of the degeneracy.