Worst-case mixing estimates for Brownian motion with semipermeable barriers

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Main Authors: Van Werde, Alexander, Sanders, Jaron
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author Van Werde, Alexander
Sanders, Jaron
author_facet Van Werde, Alexander
Sanders, Jaron
contents We study the mixing properties of a Brownian motion whose movements are hindered by semipermeable barriers. Our setting assumes that the process takes values in a smooth planar domain and that the barriers are one-dimensional closed curves. We establish an upper bound on the mixing time and a lower bound on the stationary distribution in terms of geometric parameters. These worst-case bounds decay at an exponential rate as the domain grows large, and we give examples that show that exponential decay is necessary in our worst-case setting.
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spellingShingle Worst-case mixing estimates for Brownian motion with semipermeable barriers
Van Werde, Alexander
Sanders, Jaron
Probability
37A25, 60J65, 60H10
We study the mixing properties of a Brownian motion whose movements are hindered by semipermeable barriers. Our setting assumes that the process takes values in a smooth planar domain and that the barriers are one-dimensional closed curves. We establish an upper bound on the mixing time and a lower bound on the stationary distribution in terms of geometric parameters. These worst-case bounds decay at an exponential rate as the domain grows large, and we give examples that show that exponential decay is necessary in our worst-case setting.
title Worst-case mixing estimates for Brownian motion with semipermeable barriers
topic Probability
37A25, 60J65, 60H10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02661