Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics: Ecole d'Ete de Probabilites de Saint-Flour XXVII - 1997 / Edition 1

by J. Bertoin, Pierre Bernard, F. Martinelli, Y. Peres

Overview

Part I, Bertoin, J.: Subordinators: Examples and Applications:

Foreword.- Elements on subordinators.- Regenerative property.- Asymptotic behaviour of last passage times.- Rates of growth of local time.- Geometric properties of regenerative sets.- Burgers equation with Brownian initial velocity.- Random covering.- Lévy processes.- Occupation times of a linear Brownian motion.-

Part II, Martinelli, F.: Lectures on Glauber Dynamics for Discrete Spin Models: Introduction.- Gibbs Measures of Lattice Spin Models.- The Glauber Dynamics.- One Phase Region.- Boundary Phase Transitions.- Phase Coexistence.- Glauber Dynamics for the Dilute Ising Model.-

Part III, Peres, Yu.: Probability on Trees: An Introductory Climb: Preface.- Basic Definitions and a Few Highlights.- Galton-Watson Trees.- General percolation on a connected graph.- The first-Moment method.- Quasi-independent Percolation.- The second Moment Method.- Electrical Networks.- Infinite Networks.- The Method of Random Paths.- Transience of Percolation Clusters.- Subperiodic Trees.- The Random Walks RW (lambda) .- Capacity.-.Intersection-Equivalence.- Reconstruction for the Ising Model on a Tree,- Unpredictable Paths in Z and EIT in Z3.- Tree-Indexed Processes.- Recurrence for Tree-Indexed Markov Chains.- Dynamical Pecsolation.- Shastic Domination Between Trees.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540665939
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	01/14/2000
Series:	Lecture Notes in Mathematics , #1717
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

From the contents: Subordinators: Examples and Applications: Foreword.- Elements on subordinators.- Regenerative property.- Asymptotic behaviour of last passage times.- Rates of growth of local time.- Geometric properties of regenerative sets.- Burgers equation with Brownian initial velocity.- Random covering.- Lévy processes.- Occupation times of a linear Brownian motion.- Lectures on Glauber Dynamics for Discrete Spin Models: Introduction.- Gibbs Measures of Lattice Spin Models.- The Glauber Dynamics.- One Phase Region.- Boundary Phase Transitions.- Phase Coexistence.- Glauber Dynamics for the Dilute Ising Model.- Probability on Trees: An Introductory Climb: Preface.- Basic Definitions and a Few Highlights.- Galton-Watson Trees.- General percolation on a connected graph.- The first-Moment method.- Quasi-independent Percolation.- The second Moment Method.- Electrical Networks.- Infinite Networks.- The Method of Random Paths.- Transience of Percolation Clusters.- Subperiodic Trees.- .....