Probability theory : an analytic view /
"This second edition of Daniel W. Stroock's text is suitable for first-year graduate students with a good grasp of introductory, undergraduate probability theory and a sound grounding in analysis. It is intended to provide readers with an introduction to probability theory and the analytic...
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sums of Independent Random Variables
- 1.1. Independence
- 1.1.1. Independent & sigma;-Algebras
- 1.1.2. Independent Functions
- 1.1.3. The Radomachor Functions
- Exercises for ʹ 1.1
- 1.2. The Weak Law of Large Numbers
- 1.2.1. Orthogonal Random Variables
- 1.2.2. Independent Random Variables
- 1.2.3. Approximate Identities
- Exercises for ʹ 1.2
- 1.3. Cramer's Theory of Large Deviations
- Exercises for ʹ 1.3
- 1.4. The Strong Law of Large Numbers
- Exercises for ʹ 1.4
- 1.5. Law of the Iterated Logarithm
- Exercises for ʹ 1.5
- ch. 2 The Central Limit Theorem
- 2.1. The Basic Central Limit Theorem
- 2.1.1. Lindeberg's Theorem
- 2.1.2. The Central Limit Theorem
- Exercises for ʹ 2.1
- 2.2. The Berry-Esseen Theorem via Stein's Method
- 2.2.1. L1-Berry-Esseen
- 2.2.2. The Classical Berry Esseen Theorem
- Exercises for ʹ 2.2.
- 2.3. Some Extensions of The Central Limit Theorem
- 2.3.1. The Fourier Transform
- 2.3.2. Multidimensional Central Limit Theorem
- 2.3.3. Higher Moments
- Exercises for ʹ 2.3
- 2.4. An Application to Hermite Multipliers
- 2.4.1. Hermite Multipliers
- 2.4.2. Beckner's Theorem
- 2.4.3. Applications of Beckner's Theorem
- Exercises for ʹ 2.4
- ch. 3 Infinitely Divisible Laws
- 3.1. Convergence of Measures on RN
- 3.1.1. Sequential Compactness in M1RN
- 3.1.2. Levy's Continuity Theorem
- Exercises for ʹ 3.1
- 3.2. The Levy-Khinchine Formula
- 3.2.1. I(RN) Is the Closure of P(RN)
- 3.2.2. The Formula
- Exercises for ʹ 3.2
- 3.3. Stable Laws
- 3.3.1. General Results
- 3.3.2. & alpha;-Stable Laws
- Exercises for ʹ 3.3
- ch. 4 Levy Processes
- 4.1. Stochastic Processes, Some Generalities
- 4.1.1. The Space D(RN)
- 4.1.2. Jump Functions
- Exercises for ʹ 4.1
- 4.2. Discontinuous Levy Processes
- 4.2.1. The Simple Poisson Process.
- 4.2.2. Compound Poisson Processes
- 4.2.3. Poisson Jump Processes
- 4.2.4. Levy Processes with Bounded Variation
- 4.2.5. General, Non-Gaussian Levy Processes
- Exercises for ʹ 4.2
- 4.3. Brownian Motion, the Gaussian Levy Process
- 4.3.1. Deconstructing Brownian Motion
- 4.3.2. Levy's Construction of Brownian Motion
- 4.3.3. Levy's Construction in Context
- 4.3.4. Brownian Paths Are Non-Differentiable
- 4.3.5. General Levy Processes
- Exercises for ʹ 4.3
- ch. 5 Conditioning and Martingales
- 5.1. Conditioning
- 5.1.1. Kolmogorov's Definition
- 5.1.2. Some Extensions
- Exercises for ʹ 5.1
- 5.2. Discrete Parameter Martingales
- 5.2.1. Doob's Inequality and Marcinkewitz's Theorem
- 5.2.2. Doob's Stopping Time Theorem
- 5.2.3. Martingale Convergence Theorem
- 5.2.4. Reversed Martingales and De Finetti's Theory
- 5.2.5. An Application to a Tracking Algorithm
- Exercises for ʹ 5.2
- ch. 6 Some Extensions and Applications of Martingale Theory.
- 6.1. Some Extensions
- 6.1.1. Martingale Theory for a & sigma;-Finite Measure Space
- 6.1.2. Banach Space
- Valued Martingales
- Exercises for ʹ 6.1
- 6.2. Elements of Ergodic Theory
- 6.2.1. The Maximal Ergodic Lemma
- 6.2.2. Birkhoff's Ergodic Theorem
- 6.2.3. Stationary Sequences
- 6.2.4. Continuous Parameter Ergodic Theory
- Exercises for ʹ 6.2
- 6.3. Burkholder's Inequality
- 6.3.1. Burkholder's Comparison Theorem
- 6.3.2. Burkholder's Inequality
- Exercises for ʹ 6.3
- ch. 7 Continuous Parameter Martingales
- 7.1. Continuous Parameter Martingales
- 7.1.1. Progressively Measurable Functions
- 7.1.2. Martingales: Definition and Examples
- 7.1.3. Basic Results
- 7.1.4. Stopping Times and Stopping Theorems
- 7.1.5. An Integration by Parts Formula
- Exercises for ʹ 7.1
- 7.2. Brownian Motion and Martingales
- 7.2.1. Levy's Characterization of Brownian Motion
- 7.2.2. Doob-Meyer Decomposition, an Easy Case
- 7.2.3. Burkholder's Inequality Again
- Exercises for ʹ 7.2.
- 7.3. The Reflection Principle Revisited
- 7.3.1. Reflecting Symmetric Levy Processes
- 7.3.2. Reflected Brownian Motion
- Exercises for ʹ 7.3
- ch. 8 Gaussian Measures on a Banach Space
- 8.1. The Classical Wiener Space
- 8.1.1. Classical Wiener Measure
- 8.1.2. The Classical Cameron
- Martin Space
- Exercises for ʹ 8.1
- 8.2. A Structure Theorem for Gaussian Measures
- 8.2.1. Fernique's Theorem
- 8.2.2. The Basic Structure Theorem
- 8.2.3. The Cameron
- Marin Space
- Exercises for ʹ 8.2
- 8.3. From Hilbert to Abstract Wiener Space
- 8.3.1. An Isomorphism Theorem
- 8.3.2. Wiener Series
- 8.3.3. Orthogonal Projections
- 8.3.4. Pinned Brownian Motion
- 8.3.5. Orthogonal Invariance
- Exercises for ʹ 8.3
- 8.4. A Large Deviations Result and Strassen's Theorem
- 8.4.1. Large Deviations for Abstract Wiener Space
- 8.4.2. Strassen's Law of the Iterated Logarithm
- Exercises for ʹ 8.4
- 8.5. Euclidean Free Fields
- 8.5.1. The Ornstein
- Uhlenbeck Process.
- 8.5.2. Ornstein
- Uhlenbeck as an Abstract Wiener Space
- 8.5.3. Higher Dimensional Free Fields
- Exercises for ʹ 8.5
- 8.6. Brownian Motion on a Banach Space
- 8.6.1. Abstract Wiener Formulation
- 8.6.2. Brownian Formulation
- 8.6.3. Strassen's Theorem Revisited
- Exercises for ʹ 8.6
- ch. 9 Convergence of Measures on a Polish Space
- 9.1. Prohorov
- Varadarajan Theory
- 9.1.1. Some Background
- 9.1.2. The Weak Topology
- 9.1.3. The Levy Metric and Completeness of M1(E)
- Exercises for ʹ 9.1
- 9.2. Regular Conditional Probability Distributions
- 9.2.1. Fibering a Measure
- 9.2.2. Representing Levy Measures via the Ito Map
- Exercises for ʹ 9.2
- 9.3. Donsker's Invariance Principle
- 9.3.1. Donsker's Theorem
- 9.3.2. Rayleigh's Random Flights Model
- Exercise for ʹ 9.3
- ch. 10 Wiener Measure and Partial Differential Equations
- 10.1. Martingales and Partial Differential Equations
- 10.1.1. Localizing and Extending Martingale Representations.
- 10.1.2. Minimum Principles
- 10.1.3. The Hermite Heat Equation
- 10.1.4. The Arcsine Law
- 10.1.5. Recurrence and Transience of Brownian Motion
- Exercises for ʹ 10.1
- 10.2. The Markov Property and Potential Theory
- 10.2.1. The Markov Property for Wiener Measure
- 10.2.2. Recurrence in One and Two Dimensions
- 10.2.3. The Dirichlet Problem
- Exercises for ʹ 10.2
- 10.3. Other Heat Kernels
- 10.3.1. A General Construction
- 10.3.2. The Dirichlet Heat Kernel
- 10.3.3. Feynman
- Kac Heat Kernels
- 10.3.4. Ground States and Associated Measures on Pathspace
- 10.3.5. Producing Ground States
- Exercises for ʹ 10.3
- ch. 11 Some Classical Potential Theory
- 11.1. Uniqueness Refined
- 11.1.1. The Dirichlet Heat Kernel Again
- 11.1.2. Exiting Through & part;regG
- 11.1.3. Applications to Questions of Uniqueness
- 11.1.4. Harmonic Measure
- Exercises for ʹ 11.1
- 11.2. The Poisson Problem and Green Functions
- 11.2.1. Green Functions when N & ge; 3.
- 11.2.2. Green Functions when N & psi; {1,2}
- Exercises for ʹ 11.2
- 11.3. Excessive Functions, Potentials, and Riesz Decompositions
- 11.3.1. Excessive Functions
- 11.3.2. Potentials and Riesz Decomposition
- Exercises for ʹ 11.3
- 11.4. Capacity
- 11.4.1. The Capacitory Potential
- 11.4.2. The Capacitory Distribution
- 11.4.3. Wiener's Test
- 11.4.4. Some Asymptotic Expressions Involving Capacity
- Exercises for ʹ 11.4.