%0 Journal Article %T Finite-dimensional approximation for the diffusion coefficient in the simple exclusion process %A Milton Jara %J Mathematics %D 2005 %I arXiv %R 10.1214/009117906000000449 %X We show that for the mean zero simple exclusion process in $\mathbb {Z}^d$ and for the asymmetric simple exclusion process in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ for $d\geq3$, the self-diffusion coefficient of a tagged particle is stable when approximated by simple exclusion processes on large periodic lattices. The proof depends on a similar stability property of the Sobolev inner product associated with the operator. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511249v2