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Probabilities on the Heisenberg Group: Limit Theorems and Brownian Motion

Book information

Year
1996
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
478 kB (489590 bytes)
Volume
Volume 163
Pages
147\147
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

The Heisenberg group comes from quantum mechanics and is the simplest non-commutative Lie group. While it belongs to the class of simply connected nilpotent Lie groups, it turns out that its special structure yields many results which (up to now) have not carried over to this larger class. This book is a survey of probabilistic results on the Heisenberg group. The emphasis lies on limit theorems and their relation to Brownian motion. Besides classical probability tools, non-commutative Fourier analysis and functional analysis (operator semigroups) comes in. The book is intended for probabilists and analysts interested in Lie groups, but given the many applications of the Heisenberg group, it will also be useful for theoretical phycisists specialized in quantum mechanics and for engineers.

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