Entropy, Large Deviations, and Statistical Mechanics (Paperback)

Large Deviations and Statistical Mechanics.- to Large Deviations.- Large Deviation Property and Asymptotics of Integrals.- Large Deviations and the Discrete Ideal Gas.- Ferromagnetic Models on ?.- Magnetic Models on ?D and on the Circle.- Convexity and Proofs of Large Deviation Theorems.- Convex Functions and the Legendre-Fenchel Transform.- Large Deviations for Random Vectors.- Level-2 Large Deviations for I.I.D. Random Vectors.- Level-3 Large Deviations for I.I.D. Random Vectors.