Masatoshi Fukushima

Masatoshi Fukushima is one of the most influential probabilists of our times. His fundamental work on Dirichlet forms and Markov processes made Hilbert space methods a tool in stochastic analysis and by this he opened the way to several new developments. His impact on a new generation of probabilists can hardly be overstated. These Selecta collect 25 of Fukushima's seminal articles published between 1967 and 2007.

This book contains original research papers by leading experts in the fields of probability theory, stochastic analysis, potential theory and mathematical physics. There is also a historical account on Masatoshi Fukushima's contribution to mathematics, as well as authoritative surveys on the state of the art in the field. Contents:Professor Fukushima's Work:The Mathematical Work of Masatoshi Fukushima — An Essay (Zhen-Qing Chen, Niels Jacob, Masayoshi Takeda and Toshihiro Uemura)Bibliography of Masatoshi FukushimaContributions:Quasi Regular Dirichlet Forms and the Stochastic Quantization Problem (Sergio Albeverio, Zhi-Ming Ma and Michael Röckner)Comparison of Quenched and Annealed Invariance Principles for Random Conductance Model: Part II (Martin Barlow, Krzysztof Burdzy and Adám Timár)Some Historical Aspects of Error Calculus by Dirichlet Forms (Nicolas Bouleau)Stein's Method, Malliavin Calculus, Dirichlet Forms and the Fourth Moment Theorem (Louis H Y Chen and Guillaume Poly)Progress on Hardy-Type Inequalities (Mu-Fa Chen)Functional Inequalities for Pure-Jump Dirichlet Forms (Xin Chen, Feng-Yu Wang and Jian Wang)Additive Functionals and Push Forward Measures Under Veretennikov's Flow (Shizan Fang and Andrey Pilipenko)On a Result of D W Stroock (Patrick J Fitzsimmons)Consistent Risk Measures and a Non-Linear Extension of Backwards Martingale Convergence (Hans Föllmer and Irina Penner)Unavoidable Collections of Balls for Processes with Isotropic Unimodal Green Function (Wolfhard Hansen)Functions of Locally Bounded Variation on Wiener Spaces (Masanori Hino)A Dirichlet Space on Ends of Tree and Superposition of Nodewise Given Dirichlet Forms with Tier Linkage (Hiroshi Kaneko)Dirichlet Forms in Quantum Theory (Witold Karwowski and Ludwig Streit)On a Stability of Heat Kernel Estimates under Generalized Non-Local Feynman-Kac Perturbations for Stable-Like Processes (Daehong Kim and Kazuhiro Kuwae)Martin Boundary for Some Symmetric Lévy Processes (Panki Kim, Renming Song and Zoran Vondraček)Level Statistics of One-Dimensional Schrödinger Operators with Random Decaying Potential (Shinichi Kotani and Fumihiko Nakano)Perturbation of the Loop Measure (Yves Le Jan and Jay Rosen)Regular Subspaces of Dirichlet Forms (Liping Li and Jiangang Ying)Quasi-Regular Semi-Dirichlet Forms and Beyond (Zhi-Ming Ma, Wei Sun and Li-Fei Wang)Large Deviation Estimates for Controlled Semi-Martingales (Hideo Nagai)A Comparison Theorem for Backward SPDEs with Jumps (Bernt Øksendal, Agnès Sulem and Tusheng Zhang)On a Construction of a Space-Time Diffusion Process with Boundary Condition (Yoichi Oshima)Lower Bounded Semi-Dirichlet Forms Associated with Lévy Type Operators (René L Schilling and Jian Wang)Ultracontractivity for Non-Symmetric Markovian Semigroups (Ichiro Shigekawa)Metric Measure Spaces with Variable Ricci Bounds and Couplings of Brownian Motions (Karl-Theodor Sturm)Intrinsic Ultracontractivity and Semi-Small Perturbation for Skew Product Diffusion Operators (Matsuyo Tomisaki) Readership: Researchers in probability, stochastic analysis and mathematical physics. Key Features:Research papers by leading expertsHistorical account of M Fukushima's contribution to mathematicsAuthoritative surveys on the state of the art in the fieldKeywords:Probability Theory;Markov Processes;Dirichlet Forms;Potential Theory;Mathematical Physics

This book contains original research papers by leading experts in the fields of probability theory, stochastic analysis, potential theory and mathematical physics. There is also a historical account on Masatoshi Fukushima's contribution to mathematics, as well as authoritative surveys on the state of the art in the field.

This conference proceeding contains 27 peer-reviewed invited papers from leading experts as well as young researchers all over the world in the related fields that Professor Fukushima has made important contributions to. These 27 papers cover a wide range of topics in probability theory, ranging from Dirichlet form theory, Markov processes, heat kernel estimates, entropy on Wiener spaces, analysis on fractal spaces, random spanning tree and Poissonian loop ensemble, random Riemannian geometry, SLE, space-time partial differential equations of higher order, infinite particle systems, Dyson model, functional inequalities, branching process, to machine learning and Hermitizable problems for complex matrices. Researchers and graduate students interested in these areas will find this book appealing.

Sergio Albeverio gave important contributions to many fields ranging from Physics to Mathematics, while creating new research areas from their interplay. Some of them are presented in this Volume that grew out of the Random Transformations and Invariance in Stochastic Dynamics Workshop held in Verona in 2019. To understand the theory of thermo- and fluid-dynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, Albeverio and his collaborators developed stochastic theories having strong interplays with operator theory and functional analysis. His contribution to the theory of (non Gaussian)-SPDEs, the related theory of (pseudo-)differential operators, and ergodic theory had several impacts to solve problems related, among other topics, to thermo- and fluid dynamics. His scientific works in the theory of interacting particles and its extension to configuration spaces lead, e.g., to the solution of open problems in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. Together with Raphael Hoegh Krohn he introduced the theory of infinite dimensional Dirichlet forms, which nowadays is used in many different contexts, and new methods in the theory of Feynman path integration. He did not fear to further develop different methods in Mathematics, like, e.g., the theory of non-standard analysis and p-adic numbers.

This second BiBoS volume surveys recent developments in the theory of stochastic processes. Particular attention is given to the interaction between mathematics and physics. Main topics include: statistical mechanics, stochastic mechanics, differential geometry, stochastic proesses, quantummechanics, quantum field theory, probability measures, central limit theorems, stochastic differential equations, Dirichlet forms.

The study of attractors of dynamical systems occupies an important position in the modern qualitative theory of differential equations. This engaging volume presents an authoritative overview of both autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, including the global compact attractor. From an in-depth introduction to the different types of dissipativity and attraction, the book takes a comprehensive look at the connections between them, and critically discusses applications of general results to different classes of differential equations.The new Chapters 15-17 added to this edition include some results concerning Control Dynamical Systems — the global attractors, asymptotic stability of switched systems, absolute asymptotic stability of differential/difference equations and inclusions — published in the works of author in recent years.

This volume is devoted to original research results and survey articles reviewing recent developments in reduction for stochastic PDEs with multiscale as well as application to science and technology, and to present some future research direction. This volume includes a dozen chapters by leading experts in the area, with a broad audience in mind. It should be accessible to graduate students, junior researchers and other professionals who are interested in the subject. We also take this opportunity to celebrate the contributions of Professor Anthony J Roberts, an internationally leading figure on the occasion of his 60th years birthday in 2017.