Large deviations and metastability

de Enzo Olivieri, Maria Eulália Vares, M. Ismail

"This book provides a general introduction to the theory of large deviations and a wide overview of the metastable behaviour of stochastic dynamics. With only minimal prerequisites, the book covers all the main results and brings the reader to the most recent developments. Written to be accessible to graduate students, this book provides an excellent route into contemporary research."--Jacket.