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Stochastic Resetting and Large Deviations

Statistical Mechanics 2025-04-09 v2

Abstract

Stochastic resetting has been a subject of considerable interest within statistical physics, both as means of improving completion times of complex processes such as searches and as a paradigm for generating nonequilibrium stationary states. In these lecture notes we give a self-contained introduction to the toy model of diffusion with stochastic resetting. We also discuss large deviation properties of additive functionals of the process such as the cost of resetting. Finally, we consider the generalisation from Poissonian resetting, where the resetting process occurs with a constant rate, to non-Poissonian resetting.

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@article{arxiv.2412.16374,
  title  = {Stochastic Resetting and Large Deviations},
  author = {Martin R. Evans and John C. Sunil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16374},
  year   = {2025}
}

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29 pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:44:33.064Z