Department of Mathematics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435
Patrick McDonald ; Department of Mathematics, New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, Florida 34243
Abstract:
Let be a smoothly bounded domain in Euclidean space and let be a diffusion in Euclidean space. For a class of diffusions, we develop variational principles which characterize the average of the moments of the exit time from of a particle driven by where the average is taken over all starting points in