Breaking the chain

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Abstract: We consider the motion of a Brownian particle in mathbbR, moving between a particle fixed at the origin and another moving deterministically away at slow speed epsilon>0. The middle particle interacts with its neighbours via a potential of finite range b>0, with a unique minimum at a>0, where b<2a. We say that the chain of particles breaks on the left- or right-hand side when the middle particle is greater than a distance b from its left or right neighbour, respectively. We study the asymptotic location of the first break of the chain in the limit of small noise, in the case where epsilon=epsilon(sigma) and sigma>0 is the noise intensity.












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