We explore the effect of multiscale structure on weakly interacting diffusions through two main projects.
In the first, we consider a collection of weakly interacting diffusion processes moving in a two-scale locally periodic environment. We study the large deviations principle of the empirical distribution of the particles' positions in the combined limit as the number of particles grow to infinity and the time-scale separation parameter goes to zero simultaneously. We make use of weak convergence methods providing a convenient representation for the large deviations rate function, which allow us to characterize the effective controlled mean field dynamics. In addition, we obtain equivalent representations for the large deviations rate function of the form of Dawson-Gartner which hold even in the case where the diffusion matrix depends on the empirical measure and when the particles undergo averaging in addition to the propagation of chaos.
In the second, we consider a fully-coupled slow-fast system of McKean-Vlasov SDEs with full dependence on the slow and fast component and on the law of the slow component and derive convergence rates to its homogenized limit. We do not make periodicity assumptions, but we impose conditions on the fast motion to guarantee ergodicity. In the course of the proof we obtain related ergodic theorems and we gain results on the regularity of Poisson type of equations and of the associated Cauchy-Problem on the Wasserstein space that are of independent interest.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/48491 |
| Date | 26 March 2024 |
| Creators | Bezemek, Zachary |
| Contributors | Spiliopoulos, Konstantinos |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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