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We investigate piecewise-linear stochastic models as with regards to the probability distribution of functionals of the stochastic processes, a question which occurs frequently in large deviation theory. The functionals that we are looking…

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We study the exponential convergence to the stationary state for nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics, by a perturbative approach based on hypocoercive techniques developed for equilibrium Langevin dynamics. The Hamiltonian and overdamped…

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We study the large deviations of a simple noise-perturbed dynamical system having continuous sets of steady states, which mimick those found in some partial differential equations related, for example, to turbulence problems. The system is…

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Large-time asymptotic properties of solutions to a class of semilinear stochastic wave equations with damping in a bounded domain are considered. First an energy inequality and the exponential bound for a linear stochastic equation are…

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This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of path-dependent multivalued McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations perturbed by small noise. Specifically, we first establish a large deviation principle for such equations under…

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The convective Brinkman-Forchheimer (CBF) equations characterize the motion of incompressible fluid flows in a saturated porous medium. The small noise asymptotic for the two-time-scale stochastic convective Brinkman-Forchheimer (SCBF)…

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A reduced chemical scheme involving a small number of variables is often sufficient to account for the deterministic evolution of the concentrations of the main species contributing to a reaction. However its predictions are questionable in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Gabriel Morgado , Bogdan Nowakowski , Annie Lemarchand

Inspired by one--dimensional light--particle systems, the dynamics of a non-Hamiltonian system with long--range forces is investigated. While the molecular dynamics does not reach an equilibrium state, it may be approximated in the…

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The small mass limit is derived for a McKean-Vlasov equation with state-dependent friction in $d$-dimensional space. By applying the averaging approach to a non-autonomous slow-fast system with the microscopic and macroscopic scales, the…

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We provide estimates for the asymptotic gains of the displacement of a vibrating string with endpoint forcing, modeled by the wave equation with Kelvin-Voigt and viscous damping and a boundary disturbance. Two asymptotic gains are studied:…

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The present work investigates the asymptotic behaviors, at the zero-noise limit, of the first collision-time and first collision-location related to a pair of self-stabilizing diffusions and of their related particle approximations. These…

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