This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, martingales, concentration inequalities, branching ...

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, Chernoff bounds and large deviations, martingales, ...

This field investigates the relationships and bounds between various function norms, particularly through inequalities that characterise the smoothness and approximability of functions, as well as the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract If a finite Markov chain (discrete time, discrete states) has a number of absorbing states, one of these will eventually be reached. In this ...