Large deviations and applications: Consists of notes based on lectures given at a conference at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale during June 1982
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Beteilige Person: Varadhan, S. R. S. 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia, Pa. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, 3600 Market Street, Floor 6, Philadelphia, PA 19104) 1984
Schriftenreihe:CBMS-NSF regional conference series in applied mathematics 46
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611970241
https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611970241
https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611970241
https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611970241
https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611970241
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Includes bibliographical references (s. 75)
Large deviations -- Cramer's theorem -- Multidimensional version of Cramer's theorem -- An infinite dimensional example: Brownian motion -- The Ventcel-Freidlin theory -- The exit problem -- Empirical distributions -- The large deviation problem for empirical distributions of Markov processes -- Some properties of entropy -- Upper bounds -- Lower bounds -- Contraction principle -- Application to the problem of the wiener sausage -- The Polaron problem
Many situations exist in which solutions to problems are represented as function space integrals. Such representations can be used to study the qualitative properties of the solutions and to evaluate them numerically using Monte Carlo methods. The emphasis in this book is on the behavior of solutions in special situations when certain parameters get large or small
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ISBN:0898711894
9780898711899
DOI:10.1137/1.9781611970241