The Eyring-Kramers law for Markovian jump processes with symmetries (Q501817)

The Eyring-Kramers law describes the mean transition time between potential minima of a diffusion process in the potential landscape. In the paper under review, the authors consider a Markov process with state space consisting of the local minima of the potential, and transition kernel governed by the Eyring-Kramers law between neighboring minima. As the main result they obtain sharp estimates for the eigenvalues of the generator, and relate them to the mean transition times.