Probability: theory and examples

Contents
Preface
1 Measure Theory
	1.1 Probability Spaces
	Exercises
	1.2 Distributions
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	1.3 Random Variables
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	1.4 Integration
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	1.5 Properties of the Integral
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	1.6 Expected Value
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	1.7 Product Measures, Fubini’s Theorem
	Exercises
2 Laws of Large Numbers
	2.1 Independence
	Exercises
	2.2 Weak Laws of Large Numbers
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	2.3 Borel-Cantelli Lemmas
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	2.4 Strong Law of Large Numbers
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	2.5 Convergence of Random Series*
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	2.6 Renewal Theory*
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	2.7 Large Deviations*
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3 Central Limit Theorems
	3.1 The De Moivre-Laplace Theorem
	Exercises
	3.2 Weak Convergence
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	3.3 Characteristic Functions
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	3.4 Central Limit Theorems
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	3.5 Local Limit Theorems*
	3.6 Poisson Convergence
	3.7 Poisson Processes
	3.8 Stable Laws*
	Exercises
	3.9 Infinitely Divisible Distributions*
	Exercises
	3.10 Limit Theorems in Rd
	Exercises
4 Martingales
	4.1 Conditional Expectation
	Exercises
	4.2 Martingales, Almost Sure Convergence
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	4.3 Examples
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	4.4 Doob’s Inequality, Convergence in
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	4.5 Square Integrable Martingales*
	4.6 Uniform Integrability, Convergence in
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	4.7 Backwards Martingales
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	4.8 Optional Stopping Theorems
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	4.9 Combinatorics of Simple Random Walk*
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5 Markov Chains
	5.1 Examples
	Exercises
	5.2 Construction, Markov Properties
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	5.3 Recurrence and Transience
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	5.4 Recurrence of Random Walks Stararred Section
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	5.5 Stationary Measures
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	5.6 Asymptotic Behavior
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	5.7 Periodicity, Tail
	Field*
	5.8 General State Space*
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6 Ergodic Theorems
	6.1 Definitions and Examples
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	6.2 Birkhoff’s Ergodic Theorem
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	6.3 Recurrence
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	6.4 A Subadditive Ergodic Theorem
	6.5 Applications
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7 Brownian Motion
	7.1 Definition and Construction
	Exercises
	7.2 Markov Property, Blumenthal’s 0-1 Law
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	7.3 Stopping Times, Strong Markov Property
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	7.4 Path Properties
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	7.5 Martingales
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	7.6 Itˆo’s Formula*
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8 Applications to RandomWalk
	8.1 Donsker’s Theorem
	Exercises
	8.2 CLTs for Martingales
	8.3 CLTs for Stationary Sequences
	8.4 Empirical Distributions, Brownian Bridge
	Exercises
	8.5 Laws of the Iterated Logarithm
	Exercises
9 Multidimensional Brownian Motion
	9.1 Martingales
	Exercises
	9.2 Heat Equation
	9.3 Inhomogeneous Heat Equation
	9.4 Feynman-Kac Formula
	9.5 Dirichlet Problem
	Exercises
	9.6 Green’s Functions and Potential Kernels
	9.7 Poisson’s Equation
	9.8 Schr¨odinger Equation
Appendix A Measure Theory Details
	A.1 Carath´eodory’s Extension Theorem
	A.2 Which Sets Are Measurable?
	A.3 Kolmogorov’s Extension Theorem
	A.4 Radon-Nikodym Theorem
	A.5 Differentiating under the Integral
References
Index