Large deviations and metastability /
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| Author / Creator: | Olivieri, Enzo, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xv, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; 100 Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 100. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5606405 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Large deviations: basic results
- 2. Small random perturbations of dynamical systems: basic estimates of Freidlin and Wentzell
- 3. Large deviations and statistical mechanics
- 4. Metastability I: general description, the Curie-Weiss model and contact processes
- 5. Metastability II: the models of Freidlin and Wentzell
- 6. Reversible Markov chains in the Freidlin-Wentzell regime
- 7. Metastable behaviour for lattice spin models at low temperature
- Bibliography
- Index
