Title: Scaling limits of interacting particle systems
First published: 1999
Description: "This book presents in a progressive way the techniques used in the proof of the hydrodynamic behavior of interacting particle systems. It starts with introductory material on independent particles and goes all the way to nongradient systems, covering the entropy and the relative entropy methods, asymmetric processes from which hyperbolic equations emerge, the equilibrium fluctuations and the large deviations theory for short-range stochastic dynamics. It reviews, in appendices, some tools of Markov process theory and derives estimates on the spectral gap of reversible, conservative generators. The book is self-contained and can be read by graduate students in mathematics or mathematical physics with standard probability background. It can be used as a support for a graduate on stochastic processes." --FROM THE PUBLISHER.
Subjects: Mathematical physics, Hydrodynamics, Probabilities, Mathematics, Scaling laws (Statistical physics), Markov processes, Particles
LC classification: QC174.85.S34 K57 1999