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Definition of average $\langle \langle \cdot \rangle \rangle$

I started reading the paper Some Rigorous Results on the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Spin Glass Model and I would like to clarify the notation $\langle \langle \cdot \rangle\rangle$ the authors use in ...
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Has a discrete/quantum theory of probability based on the Cournot-Borel principle or something been developed?

In 1930, Émile Borel, the father of measure theory together with his student Lebesgue and a world-class expert in probability theory, published a short note Sur les probabilités universellement ...
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When is a space of measures a measurable space?

Let $X$ denote a measurable space, that is, a set equipped with a $\sigma$-algebra $\Sigma(X)$. Let $M(X)$ denote the space of real-valued measures over $X$. This is a vector space over the real ...
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Thermodynamic limit and Gaussian measures

Let $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{Z}^{d}$ be finite and fixed and consider $\mathbb{R}^{|\Lambda|}$ be the vector space of all sequences $\varphi = (\varphi_{x})_{x\in \Lambda}$. We equip $\mathbb{R}^{|\...
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Measure, volume and cardinality on Minlos' book on statistical physics

The following content was based on Minlos' book on statistical physics. Let $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ be fixed (Minlos takes $d=3$ but I think the ideas follow without change to $d \ge 1$). We ...
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Grand-canonical Gibbs measure for continuous systems

Let's consider a bounded (maybe compact) set $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{R}^{d}$ with particles interacting on it. Suppose, for each $N \in \mathbb{N}$, $U_{N}: (\mathbb{R}^{d})^{N} \to \mathbb{R}\cup \{+...
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Imprecise Definition of a $\sigma$-algebra

I'm reading some works on the hierarchical model in statistical mechanics and I came across an strange definition, which I need to clarify. Consider a finite set $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{Z}^{d}$. The ...
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Gaussian Property of the Renormalization Group

Let $\Lambda \subset \mathbb{Z}^{d}$ be a finite set and $\varphi = (\varphi_{x})_{x\in \Lambda} \in \mathbb{R}^{|\Lambda|}$. Let $F^{\Lambda}=F^{\Lambda}(\varphi)$ be a real-valued global function, ...
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Other than Brownian motion, when else is it possible to define "normalized weighted infinite dimensional Lebesgue measure"?

In this article Sourav Chatterjee poses the question, how do we define the measure: $$d\mu(A)=\frac{1}{Z}\exp\left(-\frac{1}{4g^2}S_{YM}(A)\right)dA$$ The $Z$ here is an infinite normalizing ...
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Applications of Banach-Tarski Paradox to Probability Theory?

I was just curious, since the B-T paradox is a measure theoretic result, if there are any consequences of this paradox in probability theory? Also, is there is a way of stating the B-T paradox in the ...
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Probability measures on $L^p$

Let $(X,\mathcal X,\mu)$ be a fixed measure space, and suppose that $\mu$ is stationary and ergodic with respect to the (left) action of a topological group $G$. Stationarity means that $\mu = g_* \mu ...
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Stationary, ergodic measures from the structuralist point of view

Stationary, ergodic measures are a class of objects very familiar to probabilists. In a sense, these are the weakest generalization of the classic case of independent, identically distributed random ...