TY - BOOK AU - Bovier,Anton AU - Brydges,David AU - Coja-Oghlan,Amin AU - Ioffe,Dmitry AU - Lawler,Gregory F. AU - Biskup,Marek AU - Černý,Jiří AU - Kotecký,Roman ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Random Walks, Random Fields, and Disordered Systems T2 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics, SN - 9783319193397 AV - QA401-425 U1 - 530.15 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer KW - Mathematical physics KW - Phase transitions (Statistical physics) KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Discrete mathematics KW - Probabilities KW - Mathematical Physics KW - Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems KW - Probability and Statistics in Computer Science KW - Discrete Mathematics KW - Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes N1 - Anton Bovier: From spin glasses to branching Brownian motion – and back? -- David Brydges: The Renormalization Group and Self-AvoidingWalk -- Amin Coja-Oghlan: Phase Transitions in Discrete Structures -- Dmitry Ioffe: Multidimensional Random Polymers : A Renewal Approach -- Gregory F. Lawler and Jacob Perlman: Loop measures and the Gaussian free field N2 - Focusing on the mathematics that lies at the intersection of probability theory, statistical physics, combinatorics and computer science, this volume collects together lecture notes on recent developments in the area. The common ground of these subjects is perhaps best described by the three terms in the title: Random Walks, Random Fields and Disordered Systems. The specific topics covered include a study of Branching Brownian Motion from the perspective of disordered (spin-glass) systems, a detailed analysis of weakly self-avoiding random walks in four spatial dimensions via methods of field theory and the renormalization group, a study of phase transitions in disordered discrete structures using a rigorous version of the cavity method, a survey of recent work on interacting polymers in the ballisticity regime and, finally, a treatise on two-dimensional loop-soup models and their connection to conformally invariant systems and the Gaussian Free Field. The notes are aimed at early graduate students with a modest background in probability and mathematical physics, although they could also be enjoyed by seasoned researchers interested in learning about recent advances in the above fields UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19339-7 ER -