Paul A. Meyer - Böcker

Besides a number of papers on classical areas of research in probability such as martingale theory, Malliavin calculus and 2-parameter processes, this new volume of the Séminaire de Probabilités develops the following themes: - chaos representation for some new kinds of martingales, - quantum probability, - branching aspects on Brownian excursions, - Brownian motion on a set of rays.

The different papers contained in this volume are all research papers. The main directions of research which are being developed are: quantum probability, semimartingales and stochastic calculus.

All the papers contained in the volume are original, fully refereed researchpapers. They represent a fairly broad spectrum of the research activity in probability theory, which was done internationally in 1990-1991, with particular emphasis on Markov processes and stochastic calculus. The latter subject keeps growing, and some important new developments, included in the volume, concern anticipative stochastic integrals, and new applications of the enlargements of filtrations to the study of zeros of martingales. FROM THE CONTENTS: R. Bass, D. Khoshnevisan: Stochastic calculus and the continuity of local times of Levy processes.- M.T. Barlow, P. Imkeller: On some sample path properties of Skorokhod integral processes.- T.S. Mountford: A critical function for the planar Brownian convex hull.- L. Dubins, M. Smorodinsky: The modified, discrete Levy transformation is Bernoulli.- M. Baxter: Markov processes on the boundary of the binary tree.- R. Abraham: Unarbre aleatoire infini associe a l'excursion brownienne.- S.E. Kuznetsov: On the existence of a dual semigroup.

This volume represents a part of the main result obtained bya group of French probabilists, together with thecontributions of a number of colleagues, mainly from the USAand Japan.All the papers present new results obtained during theacademic year 1991-1992. The main themes of the papers are:quantum probability (P.A. Meyer and S. Attal), stochasticcalculus (M. Nagasawa, J.B. Walsh, F. Knight, to name a fewauthors), fine properties of Brownian motion (Bertoin,Burdzy, Mountford), stochastic differential geometry(Arnaudon, Elworthy), quasi-sure analysis (Lescot, Song,Hirsch).Taken all together, the papers contained in this volumereflect the main directions of the most up-to-date researchin probability theory.FROM THE CONTENTS: J.P. Ansal, C. Stricker: Unicite etexistence de la loi minimale.- K. Kawazu, H. Tanaka: On themaximum of a diffusion process in a drifted Brownianenvironment.- P.A. Meyer: Representation de martingalesd'operateurs, d'apres Parthasarathy-Sinha.- K. Burdzy:Excursion laws and exceptional points on Brownian paths.- X.Fernique: Convergence en loi de variables aleatoires et defonctions aleatoires, proprietes de compacite des lois, II.-M. Nagasawa: Principle ofsuperposition and interference ofdiffusion processes.- F. Knight: Some remarks on mutualwindings.- S. Song: Inegalites relatives aux processusd'Ornstein-Ulhenbeck a n-parametres et capacite gaussiennec (n,2).- S. Attal, P.A. Meyer: Interpretation probabilisteet extension des integrales stochastiques non commutatives.-J. Azema, Th. Jeulin, F. Knight,M. Yor: Le theoreme d'arreten une fin d'ensemble previsible.