Wille L. New Directions in Statistical Physics...2004 torrent

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Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. As such it has a rich and varied history, with applications to thermodynamics, magnetic phase transitions, and order/disorder transformations, to name just a few. However, the tools of statistical physics can be profitably used to investigate any system with a large number of components. Thus, recent years have seen these methods applied in many unexpected directions, three of which are the main focus of this volume. These applications have been remarkably successful and have enriched the financial, biological, and engineering literature. Although reported in the physics literature, the results tend to be scattered and the underlying unity of the field overlooked. This book provides a unique insight into the latest breakthroughs in a consistent manner, at a level accessible to undergraduates, yet with enough attention to the theory and computation to satisfy the professional researcher.
Front Matter
Front Matter
Predicting the Direction of a Time Series
On the Variability of Timing in a Spatially Continuous System with Heterogeneous Connectivity
First Passage Time Problem: A Fokker-Planck Approach
First- and Last-Passage Algorithms in Diffusion Monte Carlo
Front Matter
An Updated Review of the LLS Stock Market Model: Complex Market Ecology, Power Laws in Wealth Distribution and Market Returns
Patterns, Trends and Predictions in Stock Market Indices and Foreign Currency Exchange Rates
Toward an Understanding of Financial Markets using Multi-agent Games
Towards Understanding the Predictability of Stock Markets from the Perspective of Computational Complexity
Patterns in Economic Phenomena
Front Matter
New Algorithms and the Physics of Protein Folding
Sequence Alignment in Bioinformatics
Resolution of Some Paradoxes in B-Cell Binding and Activation: A Computer Study
Proliferation and Competition in Discrete Biological Systems
Privacy and Data Exchanges
Front Matter
Statistical Physics and the Clustering Problem
The Challenges of Clustering High Dimensional Data
Front Matter
Some Statistical Physics Approaches for Trends and Predictions in Meteorology
An Initial Look at Acceleration-Modulated Thermal Convection
Back Matter