Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1156796 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 2011 45 Pages PDF
Abstract

We prove the metastable behavior of reversible Markov processes on finite state spaces under minimal conditions on the jump rates. To illustrate the result we deduce the metastable behavior of the Ising model with a small magnetic field at very low temperature.

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Metastability of reversible finite state Markov processes
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