@article{EJP1916,
author = {Yukio Nagahata},
title = {Lower bound estimate of the spectral gap for simple exclusion process with degenerate rates},
journal = {Electron. J. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Journal of Probability},
volume = {17},
year = {2012},
keywords = {exclusion process; degenerate rate; spectral gap},
abstract = {We consider exclusion process with degenerate rates in a finite torus with size $n$. This model is a simplified model for some peculiar phenomena of the "glassy" dynamics. We prove that the spectral gap is bounded below by $C\rho^4/n^2$, where $\rho = k/n$ denotes the density of particle and $C$ does not depend on $n$ nor $\rho$.},
pages = {no. 92, 1-19},
issn = {1083-6489},
doi = {10.1214/EJP.v17-1916},
url = {http://ejp.ejpecp.org/article/view/1916}}