Small noise spectral gap asymptotics for a large system of nonlinear diffusions

DOI10.4171/JST/182zbMATH Open1395.60095arXiv1506.04434MaRDI QIDQ680701FDOQ680701

Authors: Giacomo Di Gesù, Dorian Le Peutrec 

Publication date: 26 January 2018

Published in: Journal of Spectral Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the $L^2$ spectral gap of a large system of strongly coupled diffusions on unbounded state space and subject to a double-well potential. This system can be seen as a spatially discrete approximation of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation on the one-dimensional torus. We prove upper and lower bounds for the leading term of the spectral gap in the small temperature regime with uniform control in the system size. The upper bound is given by an Eyring-Kramers-type formula. The lower bound is proven to hold also for the logarithmic Sobolev constant. We establish a sufficient condition for the asymptotic optimality of the upper bound and show that this condition is fulfilled under suitable assumptions on the growth of the system size. Our results can be reformulated in terms of a semiclassical Witten Laplacian in large dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04434

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zbMATH Keywords

metastabilityspectral gapinteracting particle systemlog-Sobolev inequalitystochastic Allen-Cahn equationWitten Laplaciansmall noise asymptotics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic partial differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H15) Diffusion processes (60J60) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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