The Surprising Mathematics of Longest Increasing Subsequences
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2015
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-42882-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-42882-9 (ISBN)
This book presents for the first time to a graduate-level readership recent groundbreaking developments in probability and combinatorics related to the longest increasing subsequence problem. Its detailed, playful presentation provides a motivating entry to elegant mathematical ideas that are of interest to every mathematician and to many computer scientists, physicists and statisticians.
In a surprising sequence of developments, the longest increasing subsequence problem, originally mentioned as merely a curious example in a 1961 paper, has proven to have deep connections to many seemingly unrelated branches of mathematics, such as random permutations, random matrices, Young tableaux, and the corner growth model. The detailed and playful study of these connections makes this book suitable as a starting point for a wider exploration of elegant mathematical ideas that are of interest to every mathematician and to many computer scientists, physicists and statisticians. The specific topics covered are the Vershik-Kerov–Logan-Shepp limit shape theorem, the Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem, the Tracy–Widom distribution, and the corner growth process. This exciting body of work, encompassing important advances in probability and combinatorics over the last forty years, is made accessible to a general graduate-level audience for the first time in a highly polished presentation.
In a surprising sequence of developments, the longest increasing subsequence problem, originally mentioned as merely a curious example in a 1961 paper, has proven to have deep connections to many seemingly unrelated branches of mathematics, such as random permutations, random matrices, Young tableaux, and the corner growth model. The detailed and playful study of these connections makes this book suitable as a starting point for a wider exploration of elegant mathematical ideas that are of interest to every mathematician and to many computer scientists, physicists and statisticians. The specific topics covered are the Vershik-Kerov–Logan-Shepp limit shape theorem, the Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem, the Tracy–Widom distribution, and the corner growth process. This exciting body of work, encompassing important advances in probability and combinatorics over the last forty years, is made accessible to a general graduate-level audience for the first time in a highly polished presentation.
Dan Romik is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis.
1. Longest increasing subsequences in random permutations; 2. The Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem; 3. Erdős–Szekeres permutations and square Young tableaux; 4. The corner growth process: limit shapes; 5. The corner growth process: distributional results; Appendix: Kingman's subadditive ergodic theorem.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.2.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Institute of Mathematical Statistics Textbooks |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Halftones, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 520 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-107-42882-3 / 1107428823 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-42882-9 / 9781107428829 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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