Stochastic Fusion of Interacting Particle Systems and Duality Functions

Jeffrey Kuan

Published 2019-08-06Version 1

We introduce a new method, which we call stochastic fusion, which takes an exclusion process and constructs an interacting particle systems in which more than one particle may occupy a lattice site. The construction only requires the existence of stationary measures of the original exclusion process on a finite lattice. If the original exclusion process satisfies Markov duality on a finite lattice, then the construction produces Markov duality functions (for some initial conditions) for the fused exclusion process. The stochastic fusion construction is based off of the Rogers--Pitman intertwining. In particular, we have results for three types of models: 1. For symmetric exclusion processes, the fused process and duality functions are inhomogeneous generalizations of those in \cite{GKRV}. The construction also allows a general class of open boundary conditions: as an application of the duality, we find the hydrodynamic limit and stationary measures of the generalized symmetric simple exclusion process SSEP$(m/2)$ on $\mathbb{Z}_+$ for open boundary conditions. 2. For the asymmetric simple exclusion process, the fused process and duality functions are inhomogeneous generalizations of those found in \cite{CGRS} for the ASEP$(q,j)$. As a by-product of the construction, we show that the multi--species ASEP$(q,j)$ preserves $q$--exchangeable measures, and use this to find new duality functions for the ASEP, ASEP$(q,j)$ and $q$--Boson. 3. For dynamic models, we fuse the dynamic ASEP from \cite{BorodinDyn}, and produce a dynamic and inhomogeneous version of ASEP$(q,j)$. We also apply stochastic fusion to IRF models and compare them to previously found models.