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Perplexing Problems in Probability

Festschrift in Honor of Harry Kesten

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Maury Bramson

    1. School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

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  2. Rick Durrett

    1. Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: Progress in Probability (PRPR, volume 44)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Harry Kesten’s Publications

    • Rick Durrett
    Pages 1-33

  3. Lattice Trees, Percolation and Super-Brownian Motion

    • Gordon Slade
    Pages 35-51

  4. Percolation in ∞ + 1 Dimensions at the Uniqueness Threshold

    • Roberto H. Schonmann
    Pages 53-67

  5. Percolation on Transitive Graphs as a Coalescent Process: Relentless Merging Followed by Simultaneous Uniqueness

    • Olle Häggström, Yuval Peres, Roberto H. Schonmann
    Pages 69-90

  6. Inequalities and Entanglements for Percolation and Random-Cluster Models

    • Geoffrey R. Grimmett
    Pages 91-105

  7. From Greedy Lattice Animals to Euclidean First-Passage Percolation

    • C. Douglas Howard, Charles M. Newman
    Pages 107-119

  8. Reverse Shapes in First-Passage Percolation and Related Growth Models

    • Janko Gravner, David Griffeath
    Pages 121-142

  9. Double Behavior of Critical First-Passage Percolation

    • Yu Zhang
    Pages 143-158

  10. The van den Berg-Kesten-Reimer Inequality: A Review

    • Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Dana Randall
    Pages 159-173

  11. Large Scale Degrees and the Number of Spanning Clusters for the Uniform Spanning Tree

    • Itai Benjamini
    Pages 175-183

  12. On the Absence of Phase Transition in the Monomer-Dimer Model

    • J. van den Berg
    Pages 185-195

  13. Loop-Erased Random Walk

    • Gregory F. Lawler
    Pages 197-217

  14. Dominance of the Sum over the Maximum and Some New Classes of Stochastic Compactness

    • P. S. Griffin, R. A. Maller
    Pages 219-245

  15. Stability and Heavy Traffic Limits for Queueing Networks

    • Maury Bramson
    Pages 247-267

  16. Rescaled Particle Systems Converging to Super-Brownian Motion

    • Ted Cox, Richard Durrett, Edwin A. Perkins
    Pages 269-284

  17. The Hausdorff Measure of the Range of Super-Brownian Motion

    • Jean-François Le Gall
    Pages 285-314

  18. Branching Random Walks on Finite Trees

    • Thomas M. Liggett
    Pages 315-330

  19. Toom’s Stability Theorem in Continuous Time

    • Lawrence F. Gray
    Pages 331-353

  20. The Role of Explicit Space in Plant Competition Models

    • Claudia Neuhauser
    Pages 355-371
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Maury Bramson

  • Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Rick Durrett

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perplexing Problems in Probability

  • Book Subtitle: Festschrift in Honor of Harry Kesten

  • Editors: Maury Bramson, Rick Durrett

  • Series Title: Progress in Probability

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2168-5

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4093-4Due: 01 November 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7442-1Published: 08 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2168-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1050-6977

  • Series E-ISSN: 2297-0428

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 398

  • Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Applications of Mathematics

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