{
  "id": "0910.4088",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-10-21T13:36:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-10-21T13:36:42.000Z",
  "title": "Tunneling and Metastability of continuous time Markov chains",
  "authors": [
    "Johel Beltrán",
    "Claudio Landim"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "math.PR"
  ],
  "abstract": "We propose a new definition of metastability of Markov processes on countable state spaces. We obtain sufficient conditions for a sequence of processes to be metastable. In the reversible case these conditions are expressed in terms of the capacity and of the stationary measure of the metastable states.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-10-21T13:36:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "60K35"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "continuous time markov chains",
      "metastability",
      "countable state spaces",
      "stationary measure",
      "markov processes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1007/s10955-010-0030-9",
      "journal": "Journal of Statistical Physics",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 140,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": 1
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010JSP...140....1B"
    }
  }
}