Transience of second-class particles and diffusive bounds for additive functionals in one-dimensional asymmetric exclusion processes

Abstract

Consider a one-dimensional exclusion process with finite-range translation-invariant jump rates with non-zero drift. Let the process be stationary with product Bernoulli invariant distribution at density ρ. Place a second class particle initially at the origin. For the case ρdifferent from 1/2 we show that the time spent by the second class particle at the origin has finite expectation. This strong transience is then used to prove that variances of additive functionals of local mean-zero functions are diffusive when ρis not 1/2. As a corollary to previous work, we deduce the invariance principle for these functionals. The main arguments are comparisons of H_{-1} norms, a large deviation estimate for second-class particles, and a relation between occupation times of second-class particles and additive functional variances.

22 pages