Source: Ann. Probab. Volume 31, Number 1
(2003), 115-147.
We consider the Ginzburg--Landau process on the lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$
whose potential is a bounded perturbation of the Gaussian potential.
We prove that the decay rate to equilibrium in the variance sense is
$t^{-d/2}$ up to a~logarithmic correction, for any function $u$ with
finite triple norm; that is,
$|\!|\!| u |\!|\!| \;=\; \sum_{x\in \mathbb{Z}^d}
\Vert \partial_{\eta_x} u \Vert_\infty < \infty$.
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