Sharp asymptotics of metastable transition times for one dimensional SPDEs

2012/01/21 by Barret, Florent
#FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.4440

Abstract

We consider a class of parabolic semi-linear stochastic partial differential equations driven by space-time white noise on a compact space interval. Our aim is to obtain precise asymptotics of the transition times between metastable states. A version of the so-called Eyring-Kramers Formula is proven in an infinite dimensional setting. The proof is based on a spatial finite difference discretization of the stochastic partial differential equation. The expected transition time is computed for the finite dimensional approximation and controlled uniformly in the dimension.

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