Analysis in Integer and Fractional Dimensions

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-65084-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 580 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1081 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics

This book provides a thorough and self-contained study of interdependence and complexity in settings of functional analysis, harmonic analysis and stochastic analysis. It focuses on 'dimension' as a basic counter of degrees of freedom, leading to precise relations between combinatorial measurements and various indices originating from the classical inequalities of Khintchin, Littlewood and Grothendieck. The basic concepts of fractional Cartesian products and combinatorial dimension are introduced and linked to scales calibrated by harmonic-analytic and stochastic measurements. Topics include the (two-dimensional) Grothendieck inequality and its extensions to higher dimensions, stochastic models of Brownian motion, degrees of randomness and Frechet measures in stochastic analysis. This book is primarily aimed at graduate students specialising in harmonic analysis, functional analysis or probability theory. It contains many exercises and is suitable to be used as a textbook. It is also of interest to scientists from other disciplines, including computer scientists, physicists, statisticians, biologists and economists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blei, Ron C.

Blei, Ron

Blei, R. C.

Bollobas, Bela

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Elementare Analysis und Allgemeine Begriffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. A prologue: mostly historical; 2. Three classical inequalities; 3. A fourth inequality; 4. Elementary properties of the Frechet variation - an introduction to tensor products; 5. The Grothendieck factorization theorem; 6. An introduction to multidimensional measure theory; 7. An introduction to harmonic analysis; 8. Multilinear extensions of the Grothendieck inequality; 9. Product Frechet measures; 10. Brownian motion and the Wiener process; 11. Integrator; 12. A '3/2n- dimensional' Cartesian product; 13. Fractional Cartesian products and combinatorial dimension; 14. The last chapter: leads and loose ends.