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

DOI10.4171/JST/182MaRDI QIDQ680701zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Giacomo Di Gesù, Dorian Le Peutrec

Publication date 26 January 2018

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

interacting particle systemlog-Sobolev inequalitymetastabilitysmall noise asymptoticsspectral gapstochastic Allen-Cahn equationWitten Laplacian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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Summary: 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 fullled 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.

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