Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is a collection of 15 research and survey papers written by the speakers from two international conferences held in Japan, The 11th Mathematical Society of Japan International Research Institute's Stochastic Analysis on Large Scale Interacting Systems and Stochastic Analysis and Statistical Mechanics. Topics discussed in the volume cover the hydrodynamic limit, fluctuations, large deviations, spectral gap (Poincare inequality), logarithmic Sobolev inequality, Ornstein-Zernike asymptotics, random environments, determinantal expressions for systems including exclusion processes (stochastic lattice gas, Kawasaki dynamics), zero range processes, interacting Brownian particles, random walks, self-avoiding walks, Ginzburg-Landau model, interface models, Ising model, Widom-Rowlinson model, directed polymers, random matrices, Dyson's model, and more. The material is suitable for graduate students and researchers interested in probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistical mechanics.
