Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Large deviations: basic results
- 2 Small random perturbations of dynamical systems. Basic estimates of Freidlin and Wentzell
- 3 Large deviations and statistical mechanics
- 4 Metastability. General description. Curie–Weiss model. Contact process
- 5 Metastability. Models of Freidlin and Wentzell
- 6 Reversible Markov chains in the Freidlin–Wentzell regime
- 7 Metastable behaviour for lattice spin models at low temperature
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Large deviations: basic results
- 2 Small random perturbations of dynamical systems. Basic estimates of Freidlin and Wentzell
- 3 Large deviations and statistical mechanics
- 4 Metastability. General description. Curie–Weiss model. Contact process
- 5 Metastability. Models of Freidlin and Wentzell
- 6 Reversible Markov chains in the Freidlin–Wentzell regime
- 7 Metastable behaviour for lattice spin models at low temperature
- References
- Index
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- Large Deviations and Metastability , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005