Pointwise estimates and exponential laws in metastable systems via coupling methods

DOI10.1214/10-AOP622zbMATH Open1237.82039arXiv0909.1242OpenAlexW3098947684MaRDI QIDQ662435FDOQ662435

Authors: Alessandra Bianchi, Anton Bovier, Dmitry Ioffe 

Publication date: 22 February 2012

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

Abstract: We show how coupling techniques can be used in some metastable systems to prove that mean metastable exit times are almost constant as functions of the starting microscopic configuration within a "meta-stable set." In the example of the Random Field Curie Weiss model, we show that these ideas can also be used to prove asymptotic exponentiallity of normalized metastable escape times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1242

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zbMATH Keywords

couplingmetastabilitypotential theoryexponential lawGlauber dynamicsdisorded systemrandom field Curie-Weiss model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C44)

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