Stochastic processes and functional analysis : a volume of recent advances in honor of M.M. Rao / edited by Alan C. Krinik, Randall J. Swift.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rao, M. M. (Malempati Madhusudana), 1929-

Krinik, Alan C. (Alan Cary)

Swift, Randall J.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics ; v. 238.

Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics ; v. 238

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stochastic processes--Congresses.

Stochastic processes.

Functional analysis--Congresses.

Functional analysis.

Rao, M. M. (Malempati Madhusudana), 1929-.

Rao, M. M.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxii, 493 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Marcel Dekker, [2004]

Contents:

An Appreciation of My Teacher, M. M. Rao / J. A. Goldstein 3

1001 Words About Rao / M. L. Green 7

A Guide to Life, Mathematical and Otherwise / N. E. Gretsky 11

Rao and the Early Riverside Years / Alan Krinik 13

On M. M. Rao / R. J. Swift 21

Reflections on M. M. Rao / Jerry Uhl 25

1. Stochastic Analysis and Function Spaces / M. M. Rao 27

2. Applications of Sinkhorn Balancing to Counting Problems / Isabel Beichl, Francis Sullivan 53

3. Zakai Equation of Nonlinear Filtering with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Noise: Existence and Uniqueness / Abhay Bhatt, Belram Rajput, Jie Xiong 67

4. Hyperfunctionals and Generalized Distributions / M. Burgin 81

5. Process-Measures and Their Stochastic Integral / Nicolae Dinculeanu 119

6. Invariant Sets for Nonlinear Operators / Gisele Ruiz Goldstein, Jerome A. Goldstein 141

7. The Immigration-Emigration with Catastrophe Model / Michael L. Green 149

8. Approximating Scale Mixtures / Hassan Hamdan, John Nolan 161

9. Cyclostationary Arrays: Their Unitary Operators and Representations / Harry Hurd, Timo Koski 171

10. Operator Theoretic Review for Information Channels / Yuichiro Kakihara 195

11. Pseudoergodicity in Information Channels / Yuichiro Kakihara 209

12. Connections Between Birth-Death Processes / Alan Krinik, Carrie Mortensen, Gerardo Rubino 219

13. Integrated Gaussian Processes and Their Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces / Milan N. Lukic 241

14. Moving Average Representation and Prediction for Multidimensional Harmonizable Processes / Marc H. Mehlman 265

15. Double-Level Averaging on a Stratified Space / Natella V. O'Bryant 277

16. The Problem of Optimal Asset Allocation with Stable Distributed Returns / Svetlozar Rachev, Sergio Ortobelli, Eduardo Schwartz 295

17. Computations for Nonsquare Constants of Orlicz Spaces / Z. D. Ren 349

18. Asymptotically Stationary and Related Processes / Bertram M. Schreiber 363

19. Superlinearity and Weighted Sobolev Spaces / Victor L. Shapiro 399

20. Doubly Stochastic Operators and the History of Birkhoff's Problem 111 / Sheila King, Ray Shiflett 411

21. Classes of Harmonizable Isotropic Random Fields / Randall J. Swift 441

22. On Geographically-Uniform Coevolution: Local Adaptation in Non-fluctuating Spatial Patterns / Jennifer M. Switkes, Michael E. Moody 461

23. Approximating the Time Delay in Coupled van der Pol Oscillators with Delay Coupling / Stephen A. Wirkus 483.

Notes:

Papers presented at an AMS special session in honor of M.M. Rao, held at the 2002 joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America.

"Published writings of M.M. Rao": pages vii-xiv.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0824754042

OCLC:

55009263