This chapter, titled "Topics in Propagation of Chaos," is authored by Alain-Sol Sznitman and supported by NSF Grant No. DMS-8903858 and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellowship. The chapter is structured into several sections:
1. **Introduction**: Provides an overview of the topic.
2. **Generalities and First Examples**:
- A laboratory example.
- Generalities.
- Examples including:
- Our laboratory example.
- Uniform measure on the sphere of radius √n in R^n.
- Variation on a theme.
- Symmetric self-exclusion process.
- Reordering of Brownian motions.
- Colored particles and nonlinear processes.
- Loss of Markov property and local fluctuations.
- Tagged particle: a counterexample.
3. **A Local Interaction Leading to Burgers Equation**: Discusses a specific interaction that leads to the Burgers equation.
4. **The Constant Mean Free Travel Time Regime**:
- Annihilating Brownian spheres.
- Limit picture for chain reactions in the constant mean free travel time regime.
- Some comments.
5. **Uniqueness for the Boltzmann Process**:
- Wild's formula.
- Uniqueness for the Boltzmann process.
The chapter concludes with a list of references.This chapter, titled "Topics in Propagation of Chaos," is authored by Alain-Sol Sznitman and supported by NSF Grant No. DMS-8903858 and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation research fellowship. The chapter is structured into several sections:
1. **Introduction**: Provides an overview of the topic.
2. **Generalities and First Examples**:
- A laboratory example.
- Generalities.
- Examples including:
- Our laboratory example.
- Uniform measure on the sphere of radius √n in R^n.
- Variation on a theme.
- Symmetric self-exclusion process.
- Reordering of Brownian motions.
- Colored particles and nonlinear processes.
- Loss of Markov property and local fluctuations.
- Tagged particle: a counterexample.
3. **A Local Interaction Leading to Burgers Equation**: Discusses a specific interaction that leads to the Burgers equation.
4. **The Constant Mean Free Travel Time Regime**:
- Annihilating Brownian spheres.
- Limit picture for chain reactions in the constant mean free travel time regime.
- Some comments.
5. **Uniqueness for the Boltzmann Process**:
- Wild's formula.
- Uniqueness for the Boltzmann process.
The chapter concludes with a list of references.