Random Evolutions and Their Applications: 408 (Mathematics and Its Applications, 408) - Hardcover

Swishchuk, Anatoly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792345339 ISBN 13: 9780792345336

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

The main purpose of this handbook is to summarize and to put in order the ideas, methods, results and literature on the theory of random evolutions and their applications to the evolutionary stochastic systems in random media, and also to present some new trends in the theory of random evolutions and their applications. In physical language, a random evolution ( RE ) is a model for a dynamical sys­ tem whose state of evolution is subject to random variations. Such systems arise in all branches of science. For example, random Hamiltonian and Schrodinger equations with random potential in quantum mechanics, Maxwell's equation with a random refractive index in electrodynamics, transport equations associated with the trajec­ tory of a particle whose speed and direction change at random, etc. There are the examples of a single abstract situation in which an evolving system changes its "mode of evolution" or "law of motion" because of random changes of the "environment" or in a "medium". So, in mathematical language, a RE is a solution of stochastic operator integral equations in a Banach space. The operator coefficients of such equations depend on random parameters. Of course, in such generality , our equation includes any homogeneous linear evolving system. Particular examples of such equations were studied in physical applications many years ago. A general mathematical theory of such equations has been developed since 1969, the Theory of Random Evolutions.

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Synopsis

This is the first handbook on random evolutions and their applications. Its main purpose is to summarize and order the ideas, methods, results and literature on the theory of random evolutions since 1969 and their applications to the evolutionary stochastic systems in random media, and also to point out some new trends. Among the subjects that are treated are the problems for different models of random evolutions, multiplicative operator functionals, evolutionary stochastic systems in random media, averaging, merging, diffusion approximation, normal deviations, rates of convergence for random evolutions and their applications.New developments, such as the analogue of Dynkin's formula, boundary value problems, stability and control of random evolutions, stochastic evolutionary equations, driven space-time white noise and random evolutions in financial mathematics are also considered. This handbook will be of use to theoretical and practical researchers whose interests include probability theory, functional analysis, operator theory, optimal control or statistics, and who wish to know what kind of information is available in the field of random evolutions and their applications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792345339
• ISBN 13: 9780792345336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 199