Large deviations, free energy functional and quasi-potential for a mean field model of interacting diffusions

DOI10.1090/memo/0398zbMath0677.60106MaRDI QIDQ3833402

Jürgen Gärtner, Donald A. Dawson

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0398

zbMATH Keywords

large deviation principle; domain of attraction; Gibbs free energy; minimizing path; McKean-Vlasov dynamics; invariant distribution of the empirical process; mean field model of N interacting diffusions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

60F10: Large deviations

82B05: Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

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