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Microsurveys in Discrete Probability
About this Title
David Aldous, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and James Propp, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, Editors
Publication: DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Publication Year:
1998; Volume 41
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0827-6 (print); 978-1-4704-3999-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/041
MathSciNet review: MR1634151
MSC: Primary 60-06
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Tree-valued Markov chains and Poisson-Galton-Watson distributions
- On the central role of scale invariant Poisson processes on $(0, \infty )$
- Beyond the method of bounded differences
- Dynamical percolation: Early results and open problems
- Distinguishing and reconstructing sceneries from observations along random walk paths
- Mixing times
- A bird’s-eye view of uniform spanning trees and forests
- Enumerations of trees and forests related to branching processes and random walks
- Coupling from the past: A user’s guide
- Couplings for normal approximations with Stein’s method
- Annotated bibliography of perfectly random sampling with Markov chains