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Feynman-Kac Formulae

Genealogical and Interacting Particle Systems with Applications

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  • Takes readers in a clear and progressive format from simple to recent and advanced topics in pure and applied probability such as contraction and annealed properties of non linear semi-groups, functional entropy inequalities, empirical process convergence, increasing propagations of chaos, central limit, and Berry Esseen type theorems as well as large deviations principles for strong topologies on path-distribution spaces

Part of the book series: Probability and Its Applications (PIA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 1-45
  3. Feynman-Kac Formulae

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 47-93
  4. Genealogical and Interacting Particle Models

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 95-119
  5. Stability of Feynman-Kac Semigroups

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 121-155
  6. Invariant Measures and Related Topics

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 157-186
  7. Annealing Properties

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 187-214
  8. Asymptotic Behavior

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 215-251
  9. Propagation of Chaos

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 253-289
  10. Central Limit Theorems

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 291-330
  11. Large-Deviation Principles

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 331-386
  12. Feynman-Kac and Interacting Particle Recipes

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 387-426
  13. Applications

    • Pierre Del Moral
    Pages 427-522
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 523-557

About this book

The central theme of this book concerns Feynman-Kac path distributions, interacting particle systems, and genealogical tree based models. This re­ cent theory has been stimulated from different directions including biology, physics, probability, and statistics, as well as from many branches in engi­ neering science, such as signal processing, telecommunications, and network analysis. Over the last decade, this subject has matured in ways that make it more complete and beautiful to learn and to use. The objective of this book is to provide a detailed and self-contained discussion on these connec­ tions and the different aspects of this subject. Although particle methods and Feynman-Kac models owe their origins to physics and statistical me­ chanics, particularly to the kinetic theory of fluid and gases, this book can be read without any specific knowledge in these fields. I have tried to make this book accessible for senior undergraduate students having some familiarity with the theory of stochastic processes to advanced postgradu­ ate students as well as researchers and engineers in mathematics, statistics, physics, biology and engineering. I have also tried to give an "expose" of the modem mathematical theory that is useful for the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of Feynman-Kac and particle models.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"I also recommend this book as informal reading for anyone intersted in the subject, preferably with a strong background in Markov processes; in particular, for someone also familiar with one of the many fields to which the book applies Feynman-Kac models. The book is entertaining and informative." Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2005

"This book takes the readers in a clear and progressive format from simple to recent and advanced topics in pure and applied probability. … With practical and easy to use references, as well as deeper and modern mathematics studies, the book will be of use to engineers and researchers in pure and applied mathematics. Also researches in statistics, physics, biology, and operation research who have a background of Probability and Markov chain theory, can benefit from the monograph." (Lucien Lemmens, Physicalia, Vol. 57 (3), 2005)

"Pierre Del Moral has produced an extraordinary research and reference book which will be of great use to a large and diverse scientific and engineering community. The book deals in detail with convergence theorems for and applications of so-called Feynman-Kac models and their interacting particle representations. … The book’s main contribution is twofold … provides excellent models amenable to particle approximation. Del Moral is best known for his research … . The book contains many references to this branch of his work." (Mathematical Reviews, 2005)

"Examples in engineering science, Bayesian methodology, particle and statistical physics, biology, and applied probability and statistics are given to motivate the study of the Feynman-Kac models in this book. … can serve as the textbook for an entire course on Feynman-Kac Formulae and particle system approximation. It can also serve as a main reference for courses on topics like stochastic filtering, mathematical models for population genetics, mathematicalbiology, etc." (Jie Xiong, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1130 (8), 2008)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilités, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, Cedex 4, France

    Pierre Moral

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