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Brownian Motion and its Applications to Mathematical Analysis

École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLIII – 2013

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  • © 2014

Overview

  • Contains interesting examples of couplings
  • Gentle introduction to Brownian motion and analysis
  • Heuristic explanations of the main results

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2106)

Part of the book sub series: École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour (LNMECOLE)

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These lecture notes provide an introduction to the applications of Brownian motion to analysis and more generally, connections between Brownian motion and analysis. Brownian motion is a well-suited model for a wide range of real random phenomena, from chaotic oscillations of microscopic objects, such as flower pollen in water, to stock market fluctuations. It is also a purely abstract mathematical tool which can be used to prove theorems in "deterministic" fields of mathematics.

The notes include a brief review of Brownian motion and a section on probabilistic proofs of classical theorems in analysis. The bulk of the notes are devoted to recent (post-1990) applications of stochastic analysis to Neumann eigenfunctions, Neumann heat kernel and the heat equation in time-dependent domains.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Krzysztof Burdzy

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