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Main Authors: Holbach, Simon, Raimond, Olivier
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01538
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author Holbach, Simon
Raimond, Olivier
author_facet Holbach, Simon
Raimond, Olivier
contents We consider a self-interacting diffusion $X$ on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $\mathbb M$, described by the stochastic differential equation \[ dX_t = \sqrt{2} dW_t(X_t)- β(t) \nabla V_t(X_t)dt, \] where $β$ is suitably lower-bounded and grows at most logarithmically, and $V_t(x)=\frac{1}{t}\int_0^t V(x,X_s)ds$ for a suitable smooth function $V\colon \mathbb M^2\to\mathbb R$ that makes the term $-\nabla V_t(X_t)$ self-repelling. We prove that almost surely the normalized occupation measure $μ_t$ of $X$ converges weakly to the uniform distribution $\mathcal U$, and we provide a polynomial rate of convergence for smooth test functions. The key to this result is showing that if $f\colon\mathbb M\to\mathbb R$ is smooth, then $μ_{e^t}(f)$ shadows the flow generated by the ordinary differential equation \[ \dot x_t=-x_t+\mathcal U(f). \]
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spellingShingle Convergence to the uniform distribution of moderately self-interacting diffusions on compact Riemannian manifolds
Holbach, Simon
Raimond, Olivier
Probability
60K35
We consider a self-interacting diffusion $X$ on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold $\mathbb M$, described by the stochastic differential equation \[ dX_t = \sqrt{2} dW_t(X_t)- β(t) \nabla V_t(X_t)dt, \] where $β$ is suitably lower-bounded and grows at most logarithmically, and $V_t(x)=\frac{1}{t}\int_0^t V(x,X_s)ds$ for a suitable smooth function $V\colon \mathbb M^2\to\mathbb R$ that makes the term $-\nabla V_t(X_t)$ self-repelling. We prove that almost surely the normalized occupation measure $μ_t$ of $X$ converges weakly to the uniform distribution $\mathcal U$, and we provide a polynomial rate of convergence for smooth test functions. The key to this result is showing that if $f\colon\mathbb M\to\mathbb R$ is smooth, then $μ_{e^t}(f)$ shadows the flow generated by the ordinary differential equation \[ \dot x_t=-x_t+\mathcal U(f). \]
title Convergence to the uniform distribution of moderately self-interacting diffusions on compact Riemannian manifolds
topic Probability
60K35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01538