@techreport{publications48678, volume = {24-1510}, month = {February}, author = {Marc Arnaudon and Abdoulaye Kol{\'e}h{\`e} Coulibaly-Pasquier and Laurent Miclo}, series = {TSE Working Paper}, booktitle = {TSE Working Paper}, type = {Working Paper}, address = {Toulouse}, title = {On the separation cut-off phenomenon for Brownian motions on high dimensional spheres}, publisher = {TSE Working Paper}, year = {2024}, institution = {Universit{\'e} Toulouse Capitole}, url = {https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/48678/}, abstract = {This paper proves that the separation convergence toward the uniform distribution abruptly occurs at times around lnpnq\{n for the (time-accelerated by 2) Brownian motion on the sphere with a high dimension. The arguments are based on a new and elementary perturbative approach for estimating hitting times in a small noise context. The quantitative estimates thus obtained are applied to the strong stationary times constructed in [1] to deduce the wanted cut-off phenomenon.} }