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Conditional Gaussian Fluctuations And Refined Asymptotics Of The Spin In The Phase-Coexistence Region, Jingran Li
Conditional Gaussian Fluctuations And Refined Asymptotics Of The Spin In The Phase-Coexistence Region, Jingran Li
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In this dissertation four results are presented on the fluctuations of the spin per site around the thermodynamic magnetization in the mean-field Blume-Capel model, a basic model in statistical mechanics. The first two results refine the main theorem in a 2010 paper by R. S. Ellis, J. Machta, and P. T. Otto published in Annals of Applied Probability 20 (2010) 2118-2161. This paper provides the first rigorous confirmation of the statistical mechanical theory of finite-size scaling for a mean-field model. The first main result studies the asymptotics of the centered, finite-size magnetization, giving its precise rate of convergence to 0 …
On Random Time And On The Relation Between Wave And Telegraph Equations, Ramakrishna Janaswamy
On Random Time And On The Relation Between Wave And Telegraph Equations, Ramakrishna Janaswamy
Ramakrishna Janaswamy
Kac’s conjecture relating the solution of wave and telegraph equations in higher dimensions through a Poisson process-driven random time is established through the concepts of stochastic calculus. New expression is derived for the probability density function of the random time. We demonstrate how the relationship between the solution of a lossy wave- and that of a lossless wave equation can be exploited to derive some statistical identities. Relevance of the results presented to the study of pulse propagation in a dispersive medium characterized by a Lorentz or Drude model is discussed and new evolution equations for 2D Maxwell’s equations are …