Metastability and low lying spectra in reversible Markov chains

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 219-255

  Bovier, Anton ^a   Eckhoff, Michael ^b   Gayrard, Véronique ^c,d   Klein, Markus ^b  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0036019245     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200200609     Document Type: Article

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