• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Perplexing Problems in Probability : Festschrift in Honor of Harry Kesten
  • Contributor: Bramson, Maury [Author]; Durrett, Richard [Hrsg.]
  • imprint: Boston, MA: Birkhäuser Boston, 1999
  • Published in: Progress in Probability ; 44
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    Springer eBook Collection ; Mathematics and Statistics
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (398p, online resource)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2168-5
  • ISBN: 9781461221685
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  • Keywords: Distribution (Probability theory) ; Mathematics ; Probabilities.
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  • Description: 1 Harry Kesten’s Publications: A Personal Perspective -- 2 Lattice Trees, Percolation and Super-Brownian Motion -- 3 Percolation in ? + 1 Dimensions at the Uniqueness Threshold -- 4 Percolation on Transitive Graphs as a Coalescent Process: Relentless Merging Followed by Simultaneous Uniqueness -- 5 Inequalities and Entanglements for Percolation and Random-Cluster Models -- 6 From Greedy Lattice Animals to Euclidean First-Passage Percolation -- 7 Reverse Shapes in First-Passage Percolation and Related Growth Models -- 8 Double Behavior of Critical First-Passage Percolation -- 9 The van den Berg-Kesten-Reimer Inequality: A Review -- 10 Large Scale Degrees and the Number of Spanning Clusters for the Uniform Spanning Tree -- 11 On the Absence of Phase Transition in the Monomer-Dimer Model -- 12 Loop-Erased Random Walk -- 13 Dominance of the Sum over the Maximum and Some New Classes of Stochastic Compactness -- 14 Stability and Heavy Traffic Limits for Queueing Networks -- 15 Rescaled Particle Systems Converging to Super-Brownian Motion -- 16 The Hausdorff Measure of the Range of Super-Brownian Motion -- 17 Branching Random Walks on Finite Trees -- 18 Toom’s Stability Theorem in Continuous Time -- 19 The Role of Explicit Space in Plant Competition Models -- 20 Large Deviations for Interacting Particle Systems -- 21 The Gibbs Conditioning Principle for Markov Chains.