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On the spectral gap of the Kac walk and other binary collision processes

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arxiv 0807.3415 v1 pith:XLFU4ZG2 submitted 2008-07-22 math.PR math-phmath.MP

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We give a new and elementary computation of the spectral gap of the Kac walk on the N-sphere. The result is obtained as a by-product of a more general observation which allows to reduce the analysis of the spectral gap of an N-component system to that of the same system for N=3. The method applies to a number of random 'binary collision' processes with complete-graph structure, including non-homogeneous examples such as exclusion and colored exclusion processes with site disorder.

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