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The author deals with several aspects of Kautz' (1987, 1988) minimum principle for the noise-induced escape from attractors: He presents a slightly simpler derivation, points out a connection with Lyapunov exponents and invariant manifolds, and generalises to chaotic maps.
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Peter Grassberger (1989) studied this question.
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