Spatial Branching Processes, Random Snakes and Partial Differential Equations (Lectures in Mathematics. Eth Zürich (closed)) - Softcover

Le Gall, Jean-Francois

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ISBN 10: 3764361263 ISBN 13: 9783764361266

Verlag: Birkhäuser, 1999

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In these lectures, we give an account of certain recent developments of the theory of spatial branching processes. These developments lead to several fas­ cinating probabilistic objects, which combine spatial motion with a continuous branching phenomenon and are closely related to certain semilinear partial dif­ ferential equations. Our first objective is to give a short self-contained presentation of the measure­ valued branching processes called superprocesses, which have been studied extensively in the last twelve years. We then want to specialize to the important class of superprocesses with quadratic branching mechanism and to explain how a concrete and powerful representation of these processes can be given in terms of the path-valued process called the Brownian snake. To understand this representation as well as to apply it, one needs to derive some remarkable properties of branching trees embedded in linear Brownian motion, which are of independent interest. A nice application of these developments is a simple construction of the random measure called ISE, which was proposed by Aldous as a tree-based model for random distribution of mass and seems to play an important role in asymptotics of certain models of statistical mechanics. We use the Brownian snake approach to investigate connections between super­ processes and partial differential equations. These connections are remarkable in the sense that almost every important probabilistic question corresponds to a significant analytic problem.

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Jean-François Le Gall est un spécialiste de théorie des probabilités, avec des travaux de recherche dans des domaines comme le mouvement brownien, les processus de branchement, les arbres et les graphes aléatoires. Il a été Professeur à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) et à l'Ecole normale supérieure de Paris, et depuis 2007 il est Professeur à l'Université Paris-Sud Orsay et à l'Institut universitaire de France. Parmi d'autres distinctions, il a obtenu le Prix Loève 1997 et le Prix Fermat 2005.     Jean-François Le Gall is a specialist of probability theory, who has worked in areas such as Brownian motion, branching processes, random trees and random graphs. He occupied positions at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) and at Ecole normale supérieure de Paris, and since 2007 he has been a Professor at University Paris-Sud Orsay and at the Institut universitaire de France. Among other distinctions, he was awarded the 1997 Loeve Prize in probability theory and the 2005 Fermat prize for mathematical research.   Jean-François Le Gall is a specialist of probability theory, who has worked in areas such as Brownian motion, branching processes, random trees and random graphs. He occupied positions at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) and at Ecole normale supérieure de Paris, and since 2007 he has been a Professor at University Paris-Sud Orsay and at the Institut universitaire de France. Among other distinctions, he was awarded the 1997 Loeve Prize in probability theory and the 2005 Fermat prize for mathematical research.

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• Verlag: Birkhäuser
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3764361263
• ISBN 13: 9783764361266
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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