Metastable behavior in Markov processes with internal states

Journal of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 941-976

  Newby, Jay ^a   Chapman, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Jump process; Mean first exit time; Mean time to a large deviation; Metastable; Perturbation theory; Rare event; Stochastics; WKB

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883061599     PISSN: 03036812     EISSN: 14321416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-013-0723-1     Document Type: Article

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