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DTSTART:20200121T110000Z
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URL:http://www.lptms.universite-paris-saclay.fr/seminars/seminaire-du-lptm
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SUMMARY:Séminaire du LPTMS: Baruch Meerson - Salle des séminaires du FAST
  et du LPTMS\, bâtiment Pascal n°530 - 21 Jan 20 11:00
DESCRIPTION:Geometrical optics of constrained Brownian motion: three short 
 stories\nBaruch Meerson (Racah Institute of Physics\, Hebrew University of
  Jerusalem)\n\nThe optimal fluctuation method — essentially geometrical 
 optics — gives a deep insight into large deviations of Brownian motion\,
  and it achieves this purpose by simple means.  Here we  illustrate these 
 points by telling three short stories about Brownian motions\, ``pushed" i
 nto a large-deviation regime by constraints.\n\nStory 1 deals with a long-
 time survival of a Brownian particle in 1 + 1 dimension against absorption
  by a wall which advances according to a power law xw(t)~ t&gamma\;\, wher
 e  &gamma\; > 1/2. We also calculate the large deviation function (LDF) of
  the particle position at an earlier time\, conditional on the survival by
  a later time.\n\nStory 2 addresses a stretched Brownian motion above an a
 bsorbing obstacle in the plane. We compute the short-time LDF of the posit
 ion of the surviving Brownian particle at an intermediate point.\n\nIn sto
 ry 3 we compute the short-time  LDF of the winding angle of a Brownian par
 ticle wandering around a reflecting disk in the plane.\n\nIn all three sto
 ries we uncover singularities of the LDFs which can be interpreted as dyna
 mical phase transitions and which have a simple geometric origin. We also 
 use the small-deviation limit of the geometrical optics to reconstruct the
  distribution of typical fluctuations. We argue that\, in stories 1 and 2\
 , this is the Ferrari–Spohn distribution.\n\nThe talk is based on a rece
 nt paper by B. Meerson and N. R. Smith\, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52\, 415
 001 (2019).
CATEGORIES:seminars
LOCATION:Salle des séminaires du FAST et du LPTMS\, bâtiment Pascal n°53
 0\, rue André Riviere\, Orsay\, 91405\, France
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