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Large deviations

Statistical Mechanics 2017-11-22 v1 Popular Physics

Abstract

This is a brief pedagogical introduction to the theory of large deviations. It appeared in the ICTS Newsletter 2017 (Volume 3, Issue 2), goo.gl/pZWA6X.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.07571,
  title  = {Large deviations},
  author = {Satya N. Majumdar and Gregory Schehr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07571},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures