Metastability and typical exit paths in stochastic dynamics

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Authors E. Scoppola, E. Olivieri

Publication date 17 October 1999

zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsmetastabilityphase transitions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Dynamic and nonequilibrium phase transitions (general) in statistical mechanics (82C26)

Review text

This is a brief review paper which provides an updated state of the art on metastablity. The authors avoid technicalities giving the flavour of the subject through an accurate discussion which conceals both mathematical physics and probability theory. To this aim, they consider ergodic aperiodic Markov chains with exponentially small transition probabilities and provide a complete description of the typical tube of trajectories outside a general given domain. Although the results are stated without proofs, the interested reader is carefully guided through a long list of references. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0893.00028].

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