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A Resolvent Approach to Metastability

Probability 2024-06-21 v4

Abstract

We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the metastability of a Markov chain, expressed in terms of a property of the solutions of the resolvent equation. As an application of this result, we prove the metastability of reversible, critical zero-range processes starting from a configuration.

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@article{arxiv.2102.00998,
  title  = {A Resolvent Approach to Metastability},
  author = {C. Landim and D. Marcondes and I. Seo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.00998},
  year   = {2024}
}
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