Differential Equations Seminar

Location

Mathematics/Psychology : 401

Date & Time

April 7, 2014, 11:00 am12:00 pm

Description

Speaker: 
Dr. Sandra Cerrai from the University of Maryland, College Park

Title: 
The large deviation principle for SPDEs in the Smoluchowskii-Kramers approximation

Abstract: 
We study the limiting behavior of the large deviation action functional and of the quasi-potential for a stochastic semi-linear wave equation in presence of a small mass. We show that the small noise asymptotic (large deviation) is consistent with the  small mass asymptotic (Smoluchowskii-Kramers approximation).