J. Olarrea et al., ESCAPE STATISTICS FOR SYSTEMS DRIVEN BY DICHOTOMOUS NOISE .1. GENERAL-THEORY, Journal of statistical physics, 79(3-4), 1995, pp. 669-682
Previous results on first-passage-time statistics for systems driven b
y dichotomous noise are extended in order to cover the escape from reg
ions including fixed points of the stochastic flow. For such regions a
treatment splitting the escape through one or the other boundary is r
equired. The obtained escape probabilities and mean exit times are rel
evant for the complete characterization of stochastic systems undergoi
ng bifurcations.