Precise asymptotics of small eigenvalues of reversible diffusions in the metastable regime

DOI10.1214/009117904000000991zbMath1098.60079arXivmath/0503600MaRDI QIDQ2497215

Michael Eckhoff

Publication date: 3 August 2006

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503600

zbMATH Keywords

relaxation time; potential theory; capacity; diffusion process; metastability; large deviations; semiclassical limit; reversibility; exit problem; Perron-Frobenius eigenvalues; ground-state splitting; Witten's Laplace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35P15: Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs

35P20: Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs

60J60: Diffusion processes

60F10: Large deviations

58J65: Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds

35R60: PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations

31C05: Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions on other spaces

31C15: Potentials and capacities on other spaces

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