Long-time propagation of chaos and exit times for metastable mean-field particle systems

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author Monmarché, Pierre
author_facet Monmarché, Pierre
contents Systems of stochastic particles evolving in a multi-well energy landscape and attracted to their barycenter is the prototypical example of mean-field process undergoing phase transitions: at low temperature, the corresponding mean-field deterministic limit has several stationary solutions, and the empirical measure of the particle system is then expected to be a metastable process in the space of probability measures, exhibiting rare transitions between the vicinity of these stationary solutions. We show two results in this direction: first, the exit time from such metastable domains occurs at time exponentially large with the number of particles and follows approximately an exponential distribution; second, up to the expected exit time, the joint law of particles remain close to the law of independent non-linear McKean-Vlasov processes.
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spellingShingle Long-time propagation of chaos and exit times for metastable mean-field particle systems
Monmarché, Pierre
Probability
Mathematical Physics
Systems of stochastic particles evolving in a multi-well energy landscape and attracted to their barycenter is the prototypical example of mean-field process undergoing phase transitions: at low temperature, the corresponding mean-field deterministic limit has several stationary solutions, and the empirical measure of the particle system is then expected to be a metastable process in the space of probability measures, exhibiting rare transitions between the vicinity of these stationary solutions. We show two results in this direction: first, the exit time from such metastable domains occurs at time exponentially large with the number of particles and follows approximately an exponential distribution; second, up to the expected exit time, the joint law of particles remain close to the law of independent non-linear McKean-Vlasov processes.
title Long-time propagation of chaos and exit times for metastable mean-field particle systems
topic Probability
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00157