The Eyring-Kramers law for potentials with nonquadratic saddles

zbMath1234.60076arXiv0807.1681MaRDI QIDQ3099301

Barbara Gentz, Nils Berglund

Publication date: 1 December 2011

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1681

zbMATH Keywords

potential theorystochastic differential equationsmetastabilityWentzell-Freidlin theorylarge deviationstransition timespitchfork bifurcationcapacitiessubexponential asymptoticsexit problemsmost probable transition path

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Diffusion processes (60J60) Probabilistic potential theory (60J45) Generation, random and stochastic difference and differential equations (37H10) Potentials and capacities on other spaces (31C15)

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