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Metastability in a class of hyperbolic dynamical systems perturbed by heavy-tailed Levy type noise
(2015)
We consider a finite dimensional deterministic dynamical system with finitely many local attractors K-iota, each of which supports a unique ergodic probability measure P-iota, perturbed by a multiplicative non-Gaussian heavy-tailed Levy noise of small intensity epsilon > 0. We show that the random system exhibits a metastable behavior: there exists a unique epsilon-dependent time scale on which the system reminds of a continuous time Markov chain on the set of the invariant measures P-iota. In particular our approach covers the case of dynamical systems of Morse-Smale type, whose attractors consist of points and limit cycles, perturbed by multiplicative alpha-stable Levy noise in the Ito, Stratonovich and Marcus sense. As examples we consider alpha-stable Levy perturbations of the Duffing equation and Pareto perturbations of a biochemical birhythmic system with two nested limit cycles.
A discrete analogue of the Witten Laplacian on the n-dimensional integer lattice is considered. After rescaling of the operator and the lattice size we analyze the tunnel effect between different wells, providing sharp asymptotics of the low-lying spectrum. Our proof, inspired by work of B. Helffer, M. Klein and F. Nier in continuous setting, is based on the construction of a discrete Witten complex and a semiclassical analysis of the corresponding discrete Witten Laplacian on 1-forms. The result can be reformulated in terms of metastable Markov processes on the lattice.