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| We study the quasi-potential for a general class of damped semilinear stochastic wave equations. We show that, as the density of the mass converges to zero, the infimum of the quasi-potential with respect to all possible velocities converges to the quasi-potential of the corresponding stochastic heat equation, that one obtains from the zero mass limit.
This shows in particular that the Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is not only valid for small time, but, in the zero noise limit regime, can be used to approximate long-time behaviors such as exit time and exit place from a basin of attraction. |
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