Diffusive variance for a tagged particle in $d\leq 2$ asymmetric simple exclusion

Sunder Sethuraman

Published 2007-01-23Version 1

We study the equilibrium fluctuations of a tagged particle in finite-range simple exclusion processes on Z^d with biased single particle jump rates. It is known the variance of the tagged particle at time t is diffusive, that is on order O(t), in d\geq 3, and in d=1 when in addition the jump rate is nearest-neighbor, and moreover, in these cases, central limit theorems in diffusive scale have been proved. In this article, we give some partial results in the open cases in d\leq 2. Namely, we show diffusivity of the tagged particle variance at time t in the sense of some upper and lower bounds on order O(t) in d=2, and also in d=1 when in addition the jump rate is not nearest-neighbor. Also, a characterization of the tagged particle variance is given. The main methods are in analyzing H_{-1} norm variational inequalities.