This paper extends recent results on aging in mean field spin glasses on
short time scales, obtained by Ben Arous and Gun [2] in law with respect to the
environment, to results that hold almost surely, respectively in probability,
with respect to the environment. It is based on the methods put forward in
Gayrard [8,9] and naturally complements Bovier and Gayrard [6].
Branching Brownian Motion describes a system of particles which diffuse in
space and split into offsprings according to a certain random mechanism. In
virtue of the groundbreaking work by M. Bramson on the convergence of solutions
of the Fisher-KPP equation to traveling waves, the law of the rightmost
particle in the limit of large times is rather well understood. In this work,
we address the full statistics of the extremal particles (first-, second-,
third- etc. largest).
We show how coupling techniques can be used in some metastable systems to
prove that mean metastable exit times are almost constant as functions of the
starting microscopic configuration within a "metastable set". In the example of
the Random Field Curie Weiss model, we show that these ideas can also be used
to prove asymptotic exponentiality of normalized metastable escape times.
We show how coupling techniques can be used in some metastable systems to
prove that mean metastable exit times are almost constant as functions of the
starting microscopic configuration within a "metastable set". In the example of
the Random Field Curie Weiss model, we show that these ideas can also be used
to prove asymptotic exponentiality of normalized metastable escape times.