Sharp estimates for metastable lifetimes in parabolic SPDEs: Kramers law and beyond

DOI10.1214/EJP.v18-1802zbMath1285.60060arXiv1202.0990OpenAlexW2018811632MaRDI QIDQ388869

Barbara Gentz, Nils Berglund

Publication date: 17 January 2014

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0990

zbMATH Keywords

potential theorystochastic partial differential equationsmetastabilityWentzell-Freidlin theorylarge deviationsparabolic equationsreaction-diffusion equationsGalerkin approximationexit problemcapacitiesKramers lawPitchfork bifurcationsubexponential asymptoticstransition time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Probabilistic potential theory (60J45) Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Bifurcation theory for random and stochastic dynamical systems (37H20)

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