AVVISO DI SEMINARIO
Chiedo scusa per il poco preavviso, ma martedi prossimo 20 dicembre, dalle
ore 16 alle ore 18, in Sala Riunioni del Dipartimento, il prof.
Massimiliano Gubinelli (Universita' Paris Dauphine) terra' un seminario
dal titolo
Large Deviation, Gamma convergence and Entropy.
Abstract: In these two lectures I will expose an approach to large
deviation theory from the point of view of the Laplace principle of
asymptotic behavior of integrals. We describe also the interpretation of
large deviations as the Gamma-convergence of relative entropies. The
basic facts and the main examples of applications are presented in the
setting of compact metric spaces. I will try to explain the basic
phenomena like Gartner-Ellis theorem, the Sanov and Cramer theorems and
Gibbsian conditioning which are the base of statistical mechanics.
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Maurizio Pratelli