Publications in Scientific Journals:
G. Di Gesu, D. Le Peutrec:
"Small noise spectral gap asymptotics for a large system of nonlinear diffusions";
Journal of Spectral Theory,
7
(2017),
4;
46 pages.
English abstract:
We study the Lē spectral gap of a large system of strongly coupled diffusions on unbounded state space and subject to a double-well potential. This system can be seen as a spatially discrete approximation of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation on the one-dimensional torus. We prove upper and lower bounds for the leading term of the spectral gap in the small temperature regime with uniform control in the system size. The upper bound is given by an Eyring-Kramers-type formula. The lower bound is proven to hold also for the logarithmic Sobolev constant. We establish a sufficient condition for the asymptotic optimality of the upper bound and show that this condition is fulfilled under suitable assumptions on the growth of the system size. Our results can be reformulated in terms of a semiclassical Witten Laplacian in large dimension.
Keywords:
Spectral gap, Log-Sobolev inequality, Witten Laplacian, Metastability, Small noise asymptotics, Interacting particle system, Stochastic Allen-Cahn equation
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4171/JST/182
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_268288.pdf
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