Sharp asymptotics for metastability in the random field curie-weiss model

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 14, Issue , 2009, Pages 1541-1603

  Bianchi, Alessandra ^a   Bovier, Anton ^b   Ioffe, Dmitry ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capacity; Disordered system; Glauber dynamics; Metastability; Potential theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 68449091579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v14-673     Document Type: Article

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