M. Bramson / R.T. Durrett

Perplexing Problems in Probability

Festschrift in Honor of Harry Kesten
Herausgegeben:Bramson, Maury; Durrett, Richard T.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Harry Kesten has had a profound influence on probability theory for over 30 years. To honour his achievements a number of prominent probabilists have written survey articles on a wide variety of active areas of contemporary probability, many of which are closely related to Kesten's work.

Produktdetails

• Progress in Probability 44
• Verlag: Birkhäuser / Birkhäuser Boston / Springer, Basel
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-8176-4093-4
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780817640934
• ISBN-10: 0817640932
• Artikelnr.: 27524982

Inhaltsangabe

1 Harry Kesten's Publications: A Personal Perspective.- 2 Lattice Trees, Percolation and Super-Brownian Motion.- 3 Percolation in ? + 1 Dimensions at the Uniqueness Threshold.- 4 Percolation on Transitive Graphs as a Coalescent Process: Relentless Merging Followed by Simultaneous Uniqueness.- 5 Inequalities and Entanglements for Percolation and Random-Cluster Models.- 6 From Greedy Lattice Animals to Euclidean First-Passage Percolation.- 7 Reverse Shapes in First-Passage Percolation and Related Growth Models.- 8 Double Behavior of Critical First-Passage Percolation.- 9 The van den Berg-Kesten-Reimer Inequality: A Review.- 10 Large Scale Degrees and the Number of Spanning Clusters for the Uniform Spanning Tree.- 11 On the Absence of Phase Transition in the Monomer-Dimer Model.- 12 Loop-Erased Random Walk.- 13 Dominance of the Sum over the Maximum and Some New Classes of Stochastic Compactness.- 14 Stability and Heavy Traffic Limits for Queueing Networks.- 15 Rescaled Particle Systems Converging to Super-Brownian Motion.- 16 The Hausdorff Measure of the Range of Super-Brownian Motion.- 17 Branching Random Walks on Finite Trees.- 18 Toom's Stability Theorem in Continuous Time.- 19 The Role of Explicit Space in Plant Competition Models.- 20 Large Deviations for Interacting Particle Systems.- 21 The Gibbs Conditioning Principle for Markov Chains.