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Hyperbolic Dynamics, Fluctuations and Large Deviations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Hyperbolic Dynamics, Fluctuations and Large Deviations

This volume contains the proceedings of the semester-long special program on Hyperbolic Dynamics, Large Deviations and Fluctuations, which was held from January-June 2013, at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. The broad theme of the program was the long-term behavior of dynamical systems and their statistical behavior. During the last 50 years, the statistical properties of dynamical systems of many different types have been the subject of extensive study in statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, ergodic and probability theories, and some areas of mathematical physics. The results of this study have had a profound effect on many different areas in mathematics, physics, engineering and biology. The papers in this volume cover topics in large deviations and thermodynamics formalism and limit theorems for dynamic systems. The material presented is primarily directed at researchers and graduate students in the very broad area of dynamical systems and ergodic theory, but will also be of interest to researchers in related areas such as statistical physics, spectral theory and some aspects of number theory and geometry.

Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, and Probability: in Memory of Kolya Chernov
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, and Probability: in Memory of Kolya Chernov

This volume contains the proceedings of the Conference on Dynamical Systems, Ergodic Theory, and Probability, which was dedicated to the memory of Nikolai Chernov, held from May 18–20, 2015, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. The book is devoted to recent advances in the theory of chaotic and weakly chaotic dynamical systems and its applications to statistical mechanics. The papers present new original results as well as comprehensive surveys.

Brownian Brownian Motion-I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Brownian Brownian Motion-I

A classical model of Brownian motion consists of a heavy molecule submerged into a gas of light atoms in a closed container. In this work the authors study a 2D version of this model, where the molecule is a heavy disk of mass $M \gg 1$ and the gas is represented by just one point particle of mass $m=1$, which interacts with the disk and the walls of the container via elastic collisions. Chaotic behavior of the particles is ensured by convex (scattering) walls of the container. The authors prove that the position and velocity of the disk, in an appropriate time scale, converge, as $M\to\infty$, to a Brownian motion (possibly, inhomogeneous); the scaling regime and the structure of the limit process depend on the initial conditions. The proofs are based on strong hyperbolicity of the underlying dynamics, fast decay of correlations in systems with elastic collisions (billiards), and methods of averaging theory.

Geometric and Probabilistic Structures in Dynamics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Geometric and Probabilistic Structures in Dynamics

"This book presents a collection of articles that cover areas of mathematics related to dynamical systems. The authors are well-known experts who use geometric and probabilistic methods to study interesting problems in the theory of dynamical systems and its applications. Some of the articles are surveys while others are original contributions. The topics covered include: Riemannian geometry, models in mathematical physics and mathematical biology, symbolic dynamics, random and stochastic dynamics. This book can be used by graduate students and researchers in dynamical systems and its applications."--BOOK JACKET.

What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 137

What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences

This volume showcases the latest remarkable progress in pure and applied mathematics, written in an engaging style that conveys modern mathematics' thrill of discovery. Among the stories in this volume are several showing mathematics' significant role in current events, from the financial crisis to breast cancer screening. The book chronicles several important conjectures that mathematicians have settled in the past several years.

Local Limit Theorems for Inhomogeneous Markov Chains
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Local Limit Theorems for Inhomogeneous Markov Chains

This book extends the local central limit theorem to Markov chains whose state spaces and transition probabilities are allowed to change in time. Such chains are used to model Markovian systems depending on external time-dependent parameters. The book develops a new general theory of local limit theorems for additive functionals of Markov chains, in the regimes of local, moderate, and large deviations, and provides nearly optimal conditions for the classical expansions, as well as asymptotic corrections when these conditions fail. Applications include local limit theorems for independent but not identically distributed random variables, Markov chains in random environments, and time-dependent perturbations of homogeneous Markov chains. The inclusion of appendices with background material, numerous examples, and an account of the historical background of the subject make this self-contained book accessible to graduate students. It will also be useful for researchers in probability and ergodic theory who are interested in asymptotic behaviors, Markov chains in random environments, random dynamical systems and non-stationary systems.

Modern Dynamical Systems and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

Modern Dynamical Systems and Applications

This volume presents a broad collection of current research by leading experts in the theory of dynamical systems.

Outer Billiards on Kites (AM-171)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Outer Billiards on Kites (AM-171)

Outer billiards is a basic dynamical system defined relative to a convex shape in the plane. B. H. Neumann introduced this system in the 1950s, and J. Moser popularized it as a toy model for celestial mechanics. All along, the so-called Moser-Neumann question has been one of the central problems in the field. This question asks whether or not one can have an outer billiards system with an unbounded orbit. The Moser-Neumann question is an idealized version of the question of whether, because of small disturbances in its orbit, the Earth can break out of its orbit and fly away from the Sun. In Outer Billiards on Kites, Richard Schwartz presents his affirmative solution to the Moser-Neumann pro...

In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, V
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

In the Tradition of Ahlfors-Bers, V

The Ahlfors-Bers Colloquia commemorate the mathematical legacy of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers. The core of this legacy lies in the fields of geometric function theory, Teichmuller theory, hyperbolic geometry, and partial differential equations. However, the work of Ahlfors and Bers has impacted and created interactions with many other fields of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, dynamical systems, topology, geometric group theory, mathematical physics, and number theory. Recent years have seen a flowering of this legacy with an increased interest in their work. This current volume contains articles on a wide variety of subjects that are central to this legacy. These include papers in Kleinian groups, classical Riemann surface theory, translation surfaces, algebraic geometry and dynamics. The majority of the papers present new research, but there are survey articles as well.

Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

To find "criteria of simplicity" was the goal of David Hilbert's recently discovered twenty-fourth problem on his renowned list of open problems given at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. At the same time, simplicity and economy of means are powerful impulses in the creation of artworks. This was an inspiration for a conference, titled the same as this volume, that took place at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in April of 2013. This volume includes selected lectures presented at the conference, and additional contributions offering diverse perspectives from art and architecture, the philosophy and history of mathematics, and current mathematical practice.