Metastability - A Potential-Theoretic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)

This monograph provides a concise presentation of a mathematical approach to metastability, a wide-spread phenomenon in the dynamics of non-linear systems - physical, chemical, biological or economic - subject to the action of temporal random forces typically referred to as noise, based on potential theory of reversible Markov processes. The authors shed new light on the metastability phenomenon as a sequence of visits of the path of the process to different metastable sets, and focuses on the precise analysis of the respective hitting probabilities and hitting times of these sets. The theory is illustrated with many examples, ranging from finite-state Markov chains, finite-dimensional diffusions and stochastic partial differential equations, via mean-field dynamics with and without disorder, to stochastic spin-flip and particle-hop dynamics and probabilistic cellular automata, unveiling the common universal features of these systems with respect to their metastable behaviour. The monograph will serve both as comprehensive introduction and as reference for graduate students and researchers interested in metastability.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, 351
Release date:	February 2016
First published:	2015
Authors:	Anton Bovier • Frank den Hollander
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	581
Edition:	1st ed. 2015
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-24775-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General
LSN:	3-319-24775-1
Barcode:	9783319247755

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