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Title

Probability on algebraic structures : AMS Special Session on Probability on Algebraic Structures, March 12-13, 1999, Gainesville, Florida / Gregory Budzban, Philip Feinsilver, Arunava Mukherjea, editors.

Author

AMS Special Session on Probability on Algebraic Structures (1999 : Gainesville, Fla.)

Publication

Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Budzban, Gregory, 1957-
• Feinsilver, Philip J. (Philip Joel), 1948-
• Mukherjea, Arunava, 1941-

Description

ix, 238 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary mathematics ; 261

Uniform Title

Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) v. 261.

Subject

• Probability measures > Congresses
• Lie groups > Congresses
• Quantum groups

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I Lie Groups, Topological Groups -- Contractible Measures and Levy's Measures on Lie Groups / S.G. Dani, Riddhi Shah 3 -- Lie Response to Signals with Noise / Philip Feinsilver, Rene Schott 15 -- On Shifted Convolution Powers and Concentration Functions in Locally Compact Groups / Wojciech Jaworski 23 -- Embedding Infinitely Divisible Probabilities on Subsemigroups of Lie Groups / M. McCrudden, S. Walker 43 -- s-stable Semigroups on Simply Connected Step 2-nilpotent Lie Groups / Daniel Neuenschwander 59 -- II Hypergroups -- Covariance Distribution of a Generalized Random Field Over a Commutative Hypergroup / Herbert Heyer 73 -- Levy Processes on Commutative Hypergroups / Christian Rentzsch, Michael Voit 83 -- III Symmetric Cones, Wishart Distributions -- Symmetric Cones as Gelfand Pairs: Probabilistic Applications / Gerard Letac 109 -- Representations of the Wishart Distributions / Gerard Letac, Helene Massam 121 -- IV Quantum Groups, Quantum Probability -- Quantum Probability: An Historical Survey / Luigi Accardi 145 -- Levy Processes on Quantum Groups / Uwe Franz 161 -- Levy Processes on U[subscript q](g) as Infinitely Divisible Representations / V.K. Dobrev, H.-D. Doebner, U. Franz, R. Schott 181 -- V Semigroups, Matrices, Applications -- A Semigroup Approach to the Road Coloring Problem / Greg Budzban, Arunava Mukherjea 195 -- On Some One-Dimensional Stochastic Population Models / Goran Hognas 209 -- Three Algebraic Problems in Probability Theory / Zbigniew J. Jurek 221 -- Products of I.I.D. d [times] d Real Matrices: Convergence in Direction / Arunava Mukherjea 227.

ISBN

0821820273 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^00034992^

OCLC

44084123

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Harvard Library