Large deviations and a Kramers’ type law for self-stabilizing diffusions
Herrmann, Samuel ; Imkeller, Peter ; Peithmann, Dierk
Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 18 (2008) no. 1, p. 1379-1423 / Harvested from Project Euclid
We investigate exit times from domains of attraction for the motion of a self-stabilized particle traveling in a geometric (potential type) landscape and perturbed by Brownian noise of small amplitude. Self-stabilization is the effect of including an ensemble-average attraction in addition to the usual state-dependent drift, where the particle is supposed to be suspended in a large population of identical ones. A Kramers’ type law for the particle’s exit from the potential’s domains of attraction and a large deviations principle for the self-stabilizing diffusion are proved. It turns out that the exit law for the self-stabilizing diffusion coincides with the exit law of a potential diffusion without self-stabilization and a drift component perturbed by average attraction. We show that self-stabilization may substantially delay the exit from domains of attraction, and that the exit location may be completely different.
Publié le : 2008-08-15
Classification:  Self-stabilization,  diffusion,  exit time,  exit law,  large deviations,  interacting particle systems,  domain of attraction,  propagation of chaos,  60F10,  60H10,  60K35,  37H10,  82C22
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Herrmann, Samuel; Imkeller, Peter; Peithmann, Dierk. Large deviations and a Kramers’ type law for self-stabilizing diffusions. Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 18 (2008) no. 1, pp.  1379-1423. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1216677126/