Rare events in stochastic partial differential equations on large spatial domains

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1023-1038

  Vanden Eijnden, Eric ^a   Westdickenberg, Maria G ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large deviation theory; Metastability; Nucleation; Phase transformation; Rare events; Small noise; Spatially extended system; Stochastic partial differential equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349189777     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-008-9537-8     Document Type: Article

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