We examine two analytical characterisation of the metastable behavior of a Markov chain. The first one expressed in terms of its transition probabilities, and the second one in terms of its large deviations rate functional.Consider a sequence of continuous-time Markov chains (Xnp , 1 ≤ p ≤ q.
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