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MiS Preprint
38/2008
From mesoscale back to microscale: Reconstruction schemes for coarse-grained stochastic lattice systems
José Trashorras and Dimitrios Tsagkarogiannis
Abstract
Starting from a microscopic stochastic lattice spin system and the corresponding coarse-grained model we introduce a mathematical strategy to recover microscopic information given the coarse-grained data. We define "reconstructed" microscopic measures satisfying two conditions: (i) they are close in specific relative entropy to the initial microscopic equilibrium measure conditioned on the coarse-grained data and (ii) their sampling is computationally advantageous when compared to sampling directly from the conditioned microscopic equilibrium measure.