Metastability of exponentially perturbed Markov chains

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Chen, Dayue ^a   Feng, Jianfeng ^a   Qian, Minping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Exponential perturbation; Higher level attractive basin; Metastability; Pyramidal structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010861132     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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