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Laudatio: The Mathematical Work of Jürgen Gärtner

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Abstract

Over the past 35 years, Jürgen Gärtner has made seminal contributions to probability theory and analysis. In this brief laudatio, I describe what I consider to be his five most important lines of research: (1) Gärtner-Ellis large deviation principle; (2) Kolmogorov–Petrovskii–Piskunov equation; (3) Dawson–Gärtner projective limit large deviation principle; (4) McKean–Vlasov equation; (5) Parabolic Anderson model. Each of these lines is placed in its proper context, but no attempt is made to fully trace the literature. What characterizes the papers of Jürgen is that they all deal with hard fundamental problems requiring a delicate combination of probabilistic and analytic techniques. A red thread through his work is the symbiosis of large deviation theory and potential theory, which he masterfully combines to reach powerful and elegant solutions.

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Metadaten
Titel
Laudatio: The Mathematical Work of Jürgen Gärtner
verfasst von
Frank den Hollander
Copyright-Jahr
2012
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23811-6_1