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Along Paths Inspired by Ludwig Streit: Stochastic Equations for Quantum Fields and Related Systems

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Stochastic and Infinite Dimensional Analysis

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The interaction between quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, stochastic partial differential equations and infinite dimensional analysis is briefly surveyed, referring in particular to models and techniques to which L. Streit has given outstanding contributions.

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I am very grateful to the organizers for the honour and pleasure they gave me by their invitation to present this little “homage” to my very dear friend Ludwig. I thank Luigi Borasi, Tobias Kuna, anonymous referees and the editors for helpful discussions respectively suggestions. I am also grateful to Nadine Kunze and Luigi for their help with the setting of the manuscript.

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Albeverio, S. (2016). Along Paths Inspired by Ludwig Streit: Stochastic Equations for Quantum Fields and Related Systems. In: Bernido, C., Carpio-Bernido, M., Grothaus, M., Kuna, T., Oliveira, M., da Silva, J. (eds) Stochastic and Infinite Dimensional Analysis. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07245-6_1

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