Related papers: A.Ya. Khintchine's Work in Probability Theory
This study focuses on statistical inference for the class of quasi-infinitely divisible (QID) distributions, which was recently introduced by Lindner, Pan and Sato (2018). The paper presents a Fourier approach, based on the analogue of the…
A recent paper [M. H. Lee, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190601 (2007)] has called attention to the fact that irreversibility is a broader concept than ergodicity, and that therefore the Khinchin theorem [A. I. Khinchin, Mathematical Foundations of…
The book A Treatise on Probability was published by John Maynard Keynes in 1921. It contains a critical assessment of the foundations of probability and of the current statistical methodology. As a modern reader, we review here the aspects…
By formulating the axioms of quantum mechanics, von Neumann also laid the foundations of a "quantum probability theory". As such, it is regarded a generalization of the "classical probability theory" due to Kolmogorov. Outside of quantum…
This paper, which is dedicated to Alan Turing on the 50th anniversary of his death, gives an overview and discusses the philosophical implications of incompleteness, uncomputability and randomness.
This note is an (exact) copy of the report of Jaak Peetre, "Generalizing Ovchinnikov's Theorem". Published as Technical Report, Lund (1981). Some more recent general references have been added, some references updated though (in italics)…
We study a new class of so-called rational-infinitely (or quasi-infinitely) divisible probability laws on the real line. The characteristic functions of these distributions are ratios of the characteristic functions of classical infinitely…
Professor Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, best known for his doctrine of falsifiability. His axiomatic formulation of probability, however, is unknown to current…
A detailed derivation of the decay cascade probability distribution stated in Eqs. (4)-(6) and (11) of Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 186805 (2010) [arXiv:0901.4102] by Kashcheyevs and Kaestner is provided. Recurrence relations are solved explicitly…
We study infinitely divisible (ID) distributions on the nonnegative half-line $\mathbb{R}_+$. The L\'{e}vy-Khintchine representation of such distributions is well-known. Our primary contribution is to cast the probabilistic objects and the…
We survey the published work of Harry Kesten in probability theory, with emphasis on his contributions to random walks, branching processes, percolation, and related topics. A complete bibliography is included of his publications.
The L\'evy-Khintchine theorem is a classical result in Diophantine approximation that describes the asymptotic growth of the denominators of convergents in the continued fraction expansion of a typical real number. An effective version of…
The theory of Khinchin families connects Probability Theory and Complex Analysis. Along this PhD thesis, we exploit this connection to obtain, using a variety of local central limit theorems, asymptotic formulas for the coefficients of…
This is an attempt to clarify certain concepts related to a debate on the interpretation of quantum mechanics, a debate between Andrei Khrennikov on the one side and Blake Stacey and R\"udiger Schack on the other side. Central to this…
This paper addresses the central question of what a coherent concept of probability might look like that would do justice to both classical probability theory, axiomatized by Kolmogorov, and quantum theory. At a time when quanta are…
In a ground-breaking work \cite{BY}, Beresnevich and Yang recently proved Khintchine's theorem in simultaneous Diophantine approximation for nondegenerate manifolds resolving a long-standing problem in the theory of Diophantine…
Theory of Probability is distinguished by several high-level philosophical attitudes, some stressed by Jeffreys, some implicit. By reviewing these we may recognize the importance in this work in the historical development of statistics.…
A brief overview of publications in approximation theory of functions known to the author and connected with scientific publications by V.~K.~Dzyadyk (1919--1998).
The life of Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk was short (20.05.1913 -- 14.12.1966). But the impact of his personality and his works on physics and physicists is remarkable. The talk describes the biography of I.Ya. Pomeranchuk, his major…
The purpose of this review article is to give an up to date account of the theory and application of scale functions for spectrally negative Levy processes. Our review also includes the first extensive overview of how to work numerically…