Equilibrium perturbations for stochastic interacting systems

Abstract

We consider the equilibrium perturbations for two stochastic systems: the $d$-dimensional generalized exclusion process and the one-dimensional chain of anharmonic oscillators. We add a perturbation of order $N^{-\alpha}$ to the equilibrium profile and speed up the process by $N^{1+\kappa}$ for parameters $0<\kappa\le\alpha$. Under some additional constraints on $\kappa$ and $\alpha$, we show the perturbed quantities evolve according to the Burgers equation in the exclusion process, and to two decoupled Burgers equations in the anharmonic chain, both in the smooth regime.