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On the diffusive-mean field limit for weakly interacting diffusions exhibiting phase transitions

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The objective of this article is to analyse the statistical behaviour of a large number of weakly interacting diffusion processes evolving under the influence of a periodic interaction potential. We focus our attention on the combined mean field and diffusive (homogenisation) limits. In particular, we show that these two limits do not commute if the mean field system constrained to the torus undergoes a phase transition, that is to say, if it admits more than one steady state. A typical example of such a system on the torus is given by the noisy Kuramoto model of mean field plane rotators. As a by-product of our main results, we also analyse the energetic consequences of the central limit theorem for fluctuations around the mean field limit and derive optimal rates of convergence in relative entropy of the Gibbs measure to the (unique) limit of the mean field energy below the critical temperature.
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10.1007/s00205-021-01648-1

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
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Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis More from this journal
Volume:
24
Pages:
91-148
Publication date:
2021-04-25
Acceptance date:
2021-03-12
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1432-0673
ISSN:
0003-9527


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1167106
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pubs:1167106
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2021-03-12
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