Symmetric simple exclusion process

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Symmetric simple exclusion process by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
On , put independent rate- Poisson processes on unoriented nearest-neighbour edges, and exchange their endpoint occupations at each mark. Its generator on cylinder functions is . Equal occupations do not change the state, and a particle next to a vacancy jumps across at rate . The stirring representation of symmetric exclusion constructs it for arbitrary initial configurations. The simple occupation-product product self-duality of symmetric exclusion requires symmetry and is not the ordinary duality of an asymmetric process.

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