Stationary measures for the Porous Medium Model

Abstract

We study the stationary measures for variants of the Porous Medium Model in dimension 1. These are exclusion processes that belong to the class of kinetically constrained models, in which an exchange can occur between $x$ and $x+1$ only if there is a particle either at $x-1$ or $x+2$. We show that any stationary probability measure can be decomposed into a frozen part and a mixture of product measures (although there exist invariant sets which have zero probability under these measures).