Comment on "Exact large deviation statistics and trajectory phase transition of a deterministic boundary driven cellular automaton".
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Abstract
Buča et al. [Phys. Rev. E 100, 020103(R) (2019)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.100.020103] study the dynamical large deviations of a boundary-driven cellular automaton. They take a double limit in which first time and then space is made infinite, and interpret the resulting large-deviation singularity as evidence of a first-order phase transition and the accompanying coexistence of two distinct dynamical phases. This view is characteristic of an approach to dynamical large deviations in which time is interpreted as if it were a spatial coordinate of a thermodynamic system [Jack, Eur. Phys. J. B 93, 74 (2020)1434-602810.1140/epjb/e2020-100605-3]. Here, I argue that the large-deviation function produced in this double limit is not consistent with the basic features of the model of Buča et al. I show that a modified limiting procedure results in a nonsingular large-deviation function consistent with those features, and that neither supports the idea of coexisting dynamical phases.