Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXX - 2000

In World Mathematical Year 2000 the traditional St. Flour Summer School was hosted jointly with the European Mathematical Society. Sergio Albeverio reviews the theory of Dirichlet forms, and gives applications including partial differential equations, stochastic dynamics of quantum systems, quantum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Albeverio, Sergio, Schachermayer, Walter (Author)
Other Authors: Bernard, Pierre (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Sergio Albeverio: Theory of Dirichlet forms and applications
  • Functional analytic background: semigroups, generators, resolvents
  • Closed symmetric coercive forms associated with Co-contraction semigroups
  • Contraction properties of forms, positivity preserving and submarkovian semigroups
  • Potential Theory and Markov Processes associated with Dirichlet Forms
  • Diffusions and stochastic differential equations associated with classical Dirichlet forms
  • Applications
  • Walter Schachermayer: Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Markets
  • Introduction: Bachelier’s Thesis from 1900
  • Models of Financial Markets on Finite Probability Spaces
  • The Binomial Model, Bachelier’s Model and the Black-Scholes Model
  • The No-Arbitrage Theory for General Processes
  • Some Applications of the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing
  • Michel Talagrand: Mean field models for spin glasses: a first course
  • What this is all about: the REM
  • The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model at high temperature
  • The p-spin interaction model
  • External field and the replica-symmetric solution
  • Exponential inequalities
  • Central limit theorems and the Almeida-Thouless line
  • Emergence and separation of the lumps in the p-spin interaction model