Stochastic Processes on a Lattice and Gibbs Measures (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)

In many domains one encounters "systems" of interacting elements, elements that interact more forcefully the closer they may be. The historical example upon which the theory offered in this book is based is that of magnetization as it is described by the Ising model. At the vertices of a regular lattice of sites, atoms "choos e" an orientation under the influence of the orientations of the neighboring atoms. But other examples are known, in physics (the theories of gasses, fluids, .. J, in biology (cells are increasingly likely to become malignant when their neighboring cells are malignant), or in medecine (the spread of contagious deseases, geogenetics, .. .), even in the social sciences (spread of behavioral traits within a population). Beyond the spacial aspect that is related to the idea of "neighboring" sites, the models for all these phenomena exhibit three common features: - The unavoidable ignorance about the totality of the phenomenon that is being studied and the presence of a great number of often unsuspected factors that are always unquantified lead inevitably to stochastic models. The concept of accident is very often inherent to the very nature of the phenomena considered, so, to justify this procedure, one has recourse to the physicist's principle of indeterminacy, or, for example, to the factor of chance in the Mendelian genetics of phenotypes.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Mathematical Physics Studies, 11
Release date:	December 1990
First published:	1991
Authors:	Bernard Prum • Jean Claude Fort
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991
ISBN-13:	978-9401054423
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Thermodynamics & statistical physics > Statistical physics
LSN:	9401054428
Barcode:	9789401054423

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