Preface |
Basic definitions, notation and abbreviations |
Introduction / 1: |
Nonlinear Markov chains / 1.1: |
Examples: replicator dynamics, the Lotka-Volterra equations, epidemics, coagulation / 1.2: |
Interacting-particle approximation for discrete mass-exchange processes / 1.3: |
Nonlinear Lévy processes and semigroups / 1.4: |
Multiple coagulation, fragmentation and collisions; extended Smoluchovski and Boltzmann models / 1.5: |
Replicator dynamics of evolutionary game theory / 1.6: |
Interacting Markov processes; mean field and kth-order interactions / 1.7: |
Classical kinetic equations of statistical mechanics: Vlasov, Boltzmann, Landau / 1.8: |
Moment measures, correlation functions and the propagation of chaos / 1.9: |
Nonlinear Markov processes and semigroups; nonlinear martingale problems / 1.10: |
Tools from Markov process theory / Part I: |
Probability and analysis / 2: |
Semigroups, propagators and generators / 2.1: |
Feller processes and conditionally positive operators / 2.2: |
Jump-type Markov processes / 2.3: |
Connection with evolution equations / 2.4: |
Probabilistic constructions / 3: |
Stochastic integrals and SDEs driven by nonlinear Lévy noise / 3.1: |
Nonlinear version of Ito's approach to SDEs / 3.2: |
Homogeneous driving noise / 3.3: |
An alternative approximation scheme / 3.4: |
Regularity of solutions / 3.5: |
Coupling of Lévy processes / 3.6: |
Analytical constructions / 4: |
Comparing analytical and probabilistic tools / 4.1: |
Integral generators: one-barrier case / 4.2: |
Integral generators: two-barrier case / 4.3: |
Generators of order at most one: well-posedness / 4.4: |
Generators of order at most one: regularity / 4.5: |
Further techniques: martingale problem, Sobolev spaces, heat kernels etc. / 4.6: |
Unbounded coefficients / 5: |
A growth estimate for Feller processes / 5.1: |
Extending Feller processes / 5.2: |
Invariant domains / 5.3: |
Nonlinear Markov processes and semigroups / Part II: |
Integral generators / 6: |
Overview / 6.1: |
Bounded generators / 6.2: |
Additive bounds for rates: existence / 6.3: |
Additive bounds for rates: well-posedness / 6.4: |
A tool for proving uniqueness / 6.5: |
Multiplicative bounds for rates / 6.6: |
Another existence result / 6.7: |
Conditional positivity / 6.8: |
Generators of Lévy-Khintchine type / 7: |
Variable coefficients via fixed-point arguments / 7.1: |
Nonlinear SDE construction / 7.3: |
Smoothness with respect to initial data / 7.4: |
Motivation and plan; a warm-up result / 8.1: |
Lévy-Khintchine-type generators / 8.2: |
Jump-type models / 8.3: |
Estimates for Smoluchovski's equation / 8.4: |
Propagation and production of moments for the Boltzmann equation / 8.5: |
Estimates for the Boltzmann equation / 8.6: |
Applications to interacting particles / Part III: |
The dynamic law of large numbers / 9: |
Manipulations with generators / 9.1: |
Interacting diffusions, stable-like and Vlasov processes / 9.2: |
Pure jump models: probabilistic approach / 9.3: |
Rates of convergence for Smoluchovski coagulation / 9.4: |
Rates of convergence for Boltzmann collisions / 9.5: |
The dynamic central limit theorem / 10: |
Generators for fluctuation processes / 10.1: |
Weak CLT with error rates: the Smoluchovski and Boltzmann models, mean field limits and evolutionary games / 10.2: |
Summarizing the strategy followed / 10.3: |
Infinite-dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes / 10.4: |
Full CLT for coagulation processes (a sketch) / 10.5: |
Developments and comments / 11: |
Measure-valued processes as stochastic dynamic LLNs for interacting particles; duality of one-dimensional processes / 11.1: |
Discrete nonlinear Markov games and controlled processes; the modeling of deception / 11.2: |
Nonlinear quantum dynamic semigroups and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation / 11.3: |
Curvilinear Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes (linear and nonlinear) and stochastic geodesic flows on manifolds / 11.4: |
The structure of generators / 11.5: |
Bibliographical comments / 11.6: |
Appendices |
Distances on measures / A: |
Topology on cà dlà g paths / B: |
Convergence of processes in Skorohod spaces / C: |
Vector-valued ODEs / D: |
Pseudo-differential operator notation / E: |
Variational derivatives / F: |
Geometry of collisions / G: |
A combinatorial lemma / H: |
Approximation of infinite-dimensional functions / I: |
Bogolyubov chains, generating functionals and Fock-space calculus / J: |
Infinite-dimensional Riccati equations / K: |
References |
Index |
Preface |
Basic definitions, notation and abbreviations |
Introduction / 1: |
Nonlinear Markov chains / 1.1: |
Examples: replicator dynamics, the Lotka-Volterra equations, epidemics, coagulation / 1.2: |
Interacting-particle approximation for discrete mass-exchange processes / 1.3: |