Quantitative Error Estimates for Learning Macroscopic Mobilities from Microscopic Fluctuations

Abstract

We develop quantitative error estimates connecting microscopic fluctuation of interacting particle systems with the mobilities of their hydrodynamic limits. Focusing on the Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process and systems of independent Brownian particles, we provide explicit bounds for the discrepancy between the quadratic variation of fluctuation fields and the corresponding mobilities, in terms of time and spatial discretization parameters. In addition, we establish analogous error estimates for a class of fluctuating hydrodynamic stochastic PDEs with regularized coefficients. For stochastic PDEs with irregular square-root type coefficients, including Dean-Kawasaki type equations, we further identify the asymptotic behavior of the associated fluctuation structures within the framework of renormalized kinetic solutions. Our results provide quantitative insights into the relationship between microscopic fluctuation mechanisms and macroscopic mobilities, and contribute to a structured comparison between discrete particle systems and continuum fluctuating hydrodynamic descriptions.