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The aim of this paper is to stu the behavior asm tends to ∞ of a family of measures exp[-Φ (m)(x)]dx (m) on ℝm, whereΦ (m) is a potential on ℝm which is a perturbation “in a suitable sense” of the harmonic potential Σ j x 2j .
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Helffer, B., Sjöstrand, J. On the correlation for Kac-like models in the convex case. J Stat Phys 74, 349–409 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02186817
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