On the behavior of diffusion processes with traps

Citation
M. Freidlin, et al., On the behavior of diffusion processes with traps, Annals of probability (Online) , 45(5), 2017, pp. 3202-3222
ISSN journal
2168894X
Volume
45
Issue
5
Year of publication
2017
Pages
3202 - 3222
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
We consider processes that coincide with a given diffusion process outside a finite collection of domains. In each of the domains, there is, additionally, a large drift directed towards the interior of the domain. We describe the limiting behavior of the processes as the magnitude of the drift tends to infinity, and thus the domains become trapping, with the time to exit the domains being exponentially large. In particular, in exponential time scales, metastable distributions between the trapping regions are considered.