Interacting Particle Systems

Interacting Particle Systems
Author: T.M. Liggett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461385423

At what point in the development of a new field should a book be written about it? This question is seldom easy to answer. In the case of interacting particle systems, important progress continues to be made at a substantial pace. A number of problems which are nearly as old as the subject itself remain open, and new problem areas continue to arise and develop. Thus one might argue that the time is not yet ripe for a book on this subject. On the other hand, this field is now about fifteen years old. Many important of several basic models is problems have been solved and the analysis almost complete. The papers written on this subject number in the hundreds. It has become increasingly difficult for newcomers to master the proliferating literature, and for workers in allied areas to make effective use of it. Thus I have concluded that this is an appropriate time to pause and take stock of the progress made to date. It is my hope that this book will not only provide a useful account of much of this progress, but that it will also help stimulate the future vigorous development of this field.

Scaling Limits of Interacting Particle Systems

Scaling Limits of Interacting Particle Systems
Author: Claude Kipnis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662037521

This book has been long awaited in the "interacting particle systems" community. Begun by Claude Kipnis before his untimely death, it was completed by Claudio Landim, his most brilliant student and collaborator. It presents the techniques used in the proof of the hydrodynamic behavior of interacting particle systems.

Stochastic Interacting Systems: Contact, Voter and Exclusion Processes

Stochastic Interacting Systems: Contact, Voter and Exclusion Processes
Author: Thomas M. Liggett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662039907

Interactive particle systems is a branch of probability theory with close connections to mathematical physics and mathematical biology. This book takes three of the most important models in the area, and traces advances in our understanding of them since 1985. It explains and develops many of the most useful techniques in the field.

Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particles

Large Scale Dynamics of Interacting Particles
Author: Herbert Spohn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642843719

This book deals with one of the fundamental problems of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics: the explanation of large-scale dynamics (evolution differential equations) from models of a very large number of interacting particles. This book addresses both researchers and students. Much of the material presented has never been published in book-form before.

Feynman-Kac Formulae

Feynman-Kac Formulae
Author: Pierre Del Moral
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2004-03-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780387202686

This text takes readers in a clear and progressive format from simple to recent and advanced topics in pure and applied probability such as contraction and annealed properties of non-linear semi-groups, functional entropy inequalities, empirical process convergence, increasing propagations of chaos, central limit, and Berry Esseen type theorems as well as large deviation principles for strong topologies on path-distribution spaces. Topics also include a body of powerful branching and interacting particle methods.

Continuous Time Markov Processes

Continuous Time Markov Processes
Author: Thomas Milton Liggett
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821849492

Markov processes are among the most important stochastic processes for both theory and applications. This book develops the general theory of these processes, and applies this theory to various special examples.

Random Walks, Brownian Motion, and Interacting Particle Systems

Random Walks, Brownian Motion, and Interacting Particle Systems
Author: H. Kesten
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461204593

This collection of articles is dedicated to Frank Spitzer on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The articles, written by a group of his friends, colleagues, former students and coauthors, are intended to demonstrate the major influence Frank has had on probability theory for the last 30 years and most likely will have for many years to come. Frank has always liked new phenomena, clean formulations and elegant proofs. He has created or opened up several research areas and it is not surprising that many people are still working out the consequences of his inventions. By way of introduction we have reprinted some of Frank's seminal articles so that the reader can easily see for himself the point of origin for much of the research presented here. These articles of Frank's deal with properties of Brownian motion, fluctuation theory and potential theory for random walks, and, of course, interacting particle systems. The last area was started by Frank as part of the general resurgence of treating problems of statistical mechanics with rigorous probabilistic tools.

Genealogies Of Interacting Particle Systems

Genealogies Of Interacting Particle Systems
Author: Matthias Birkner
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9811206104

Interacting particle systems are Markov processes involving infinitely many interacting components. Since their introduction in the 1970s, researchers have found many applications in statistical physics and population biology. Genealogies, which follow the origin of the state of a site backwards in time, play an important role in their studies, especially for the biologically motivated systems.The program Genealogies of Interacting Particle Systems held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, from 17 July to 18 Aug 2017, brought together experts and young researchers interested in this modern topic. Central to the program were learning sessions where lecturers presented work outside of their own research, as well as a normal workshop. This is reflected in the present volume which contains two types of articles:Written by respected researchers, including experts in the field such as Steve Evans, member of the US National Academy of Sciences, as well as Anton Wakolbinger, Andreas Greven, and many others, this volume will no doubt be a valuable contribution to the probability community.

Quantum Interacting Particle Systems

Quantum Interacting Particle Systems
Author: Luigi Accardi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2002-07-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814487848

The problem of extending ideas and results on the dynamics of infinite classical lattice systems to the quantum domain naturally arises in different branches of physics (nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum optics, solid state, …) and new momentum from the development of quantum computer and quantum neural networks (which are in fact interacting arrays of binary systems) has been found.The stochastic limit of quantum theory allowed to deduce, as limits of the usual Hamiltonian systems, a new class of quantum stochastic flows which, when restricted to an appropriate Abelian subalgebra, produces precisely those interacting particle systems studied in classical statistical mechanics.Moreover, in many interesting cases, the underlying classical process “drives” the quantum one, at least as far as ergodicity or convergence to equilibrium are concerned. Thus many deep results concerning classical systems can be directly applied to carry information on the corresponding quantum system. The thermodynamic limit itself is obtained thanks to a technique (the four-semigroup method, new even in the classical case) which reduces the infinitesimal structure of a stochastic flow to that of four semigroups canonically associated to it (Chap. 1).Simple and effective methods to analyze qualitatively the ergodic behavior of quantum Markov semigroups are discussed in Chap. 2.Powerful estimates used to control the infinite volume limit, ergodic behavior and the spectral gap (Gaussian, exponential and hypercontractive bounds, classical and quantum logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, …) are discussed in Chap. 3.