里戈特编著的《相互作用粒子系统》旨在为读者全新展示随机过程这门课程。在过去的十五年里这门课程有了更深入研究，文中的材料都是之前没有以书本的形式出现过的。有关这门科技含量很高的科目，这本高质量的教程使得该科目立刻生动起来，并且尽可能多的包含一些容易理解的开放问题。对于每一位学习随机课程的学生，本书都不容错过。目次：结构和其他一般结果；一些基本工具；自旋系统；随机Ising模型；投票模型；接触法；最近粒子系统；排除过程；值在[0,∞ ]s上的线性系统。读者对象：数学、金融、统计专业的本科生、研究生和相关的科研人员。

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Introduction

CHAPTER Ⅰ

The Construction, and Other General Results

1.Markov Processes and Their Semigroups

2.Semigroups and Their Generators

3.The Construction of Generators for Particle Systems

4.Applications of the Construction

5.The Martingale Problem

6.The Martingale Problem for Particle Systems

7.Examples

8.Notes and References

9.Open Problems

CHAPTER Ⅱ

Some Basic Tools

1.Coupling

2.Monotonicity and Positive Correlations

3.Duality

4.Relative Entropy

5.Reversibility

6.Recurrence and Transience of Reversible Markov Chains

7.Superpositions of Commuting Markov Chains

8.Perturbations of Random Walks

9.Notes and References

CHAPTER Ⅲ

Spin Systems

1.Couplings for Spin Systems

2.Attractive Spin Systems

3.Attractive Nearest-Neighbor Spin Systems on Z1

4.Duality for Spin Systems

5.Applications of Duality

6.Additive Spin Systems and the Graphical Representation

7.Notes and References

8.Open Problems

CHAPTER Ⅳ

Stochastic Ising Models

1.Gibbs States

2.Reversibility of Stochastic Ising Models

3.Phase Transition

4.L2 Theory

5.Characterization of Invariant Measures

6.Notes and References

7.Open Problems

CHAPTER Ⅴ

The Voter Model

1.Ergodic Theorems

2.Properties of the Invariant Measures

3.Clustering in One Dimension

4.The Finite System

5.Notes and References

CHAPTER Ⅵ

The Contact Process

1.The Critical Value

2.Convergence Theorems

3.Rates of Convergence

4.Higher Dimensions

5.Notes and References

6.Open Problems

CHAPTER Ⅶ

Nearest-Particle Systems

1.Reversible Finite Systems

2.General Finite Systems

3.Construction of Infinite Systems

4.Reversible Infinite Systems

5.General Infinite Systems

6.Notes and References

7.Open Problems

CHAPTER Ⅷ

The Exclusion Process

1.Ergodic Theorems for Symmetric Systems

2.Coupling and Invariant Measures for General Systems

3.Ergodic Theorems for Translation Invariant Systems

4.The Tagged Particle Process

5.Nonequilibrium Behavior

6.Notes and References

7.Open Problems

CHAPTER Ⅸ

Linear Systems with Values in [0, oo）s

1.The Construction; Coupling and Duality

2.Survival and Extinction

3.Survival via Second Moments

4.Extinction in One and Two Dimensions

5.Extinction in Higher Dimensions

6.Examples and Applications

7.Notes and References

8.Open Problems

Bibliography

Index

Postface

Errata