Resumen de Pointwise estimates and exponential laws in metastable systems via coupling methods

Alessandra Bianchi, Anton Bovier, Dmitry Ioffe

• We show how coupling techniques can be used in some metastable systems to prove that mean metastable exit times are almost constant as functions of the starting microscopic configuration within a “meta-stable set.” In the example of the Random Field Curie Weiss model, we show that these ideas can also be used to prove asymptotic exponentiallity of normalized metastable escape times.