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Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 3:15pm

Jim Fill

Johns Hopkins

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4 E 9

I will show how to use Mellin transforms (a standard tool in the probabilistic analysis of algorithms) to compute a full asymptotic expansion for the tail of the Laplace transform of the squared L^2-norm of any multiply-integrated Brownian sheet. I will also show how to use "reversion" to obtain corresponding strong small-deviation estimates. As time permits, I will discuss how the same methods can be applied to other Gaussian random fields whose covariance operators are tensor products of marginal operators. (This is joint work with my department colleague Fred Torcaso.) Click here for the entire paper