Azencott, Robert A common large deviations mathematical framework for sequential annealing and parallel annealing. (English) Zbl 0787.90072 Simulated annealing. Parallelization techniques, 11-23 (1992). [For the entire collection see Zbl 0746.00020.] The titles of this chapter are: Exponentially vanishing Markov chains, the Freidlin-Wentzell framework, optimal speed of convergence for generalized annealing schemes, distortions of the energy by monotone concave functions, cycles for general exponentially vanishing transition matrices, the minimal graph computation of virtual energies. Reviewer: G.Schulz (Magdeburg) Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 1 Document MSC: 90C27 Combinatorial optimization 90-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming Keywords:exponentially vanishing Markov chains; simulated annealing; speed of convergence PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{R. Azencott}, in: Simulated annealing. Parallelization techniques. Chichester: John Wiley \&| Sons Ltd.. 11--23 (1992; Zbl 0787.90072)