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Hydrodynamic Limit of the Exclusion Process in Inhomogeneous Media

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Dynamics, Games and Science II

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We obtain the hydrodynamic limit of a simple exclusion process in an inhomogeneous environment of divergence form. Our main assumption is a suitable version of Γ-convergence for the environment. In this way we obtain an unified approach to recent works on the field.

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Jara, M. (2011). Hydrodynamic Limit of the Exclusion Process in Inhomogeneous Media. In: Peixoto, M., Pinto, A., Rand, D. (eds) Dynamics, Games and Science II. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14788-3_33

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