18.177  Stochastic Processes

Welcome to 18.177

Here is a quick reminder of the suggested reading I mentioned in lecture today:

1. Look through the description of the Yang-Mills problem by Jaffe and Witten (but don't worry if you don't understand a very high percentage of it).

http://www.claymath.org/sites/default/files/yangmills.pdf

2. Take a look at Sections 1 and 3 of Chatterjee's recent paper as he starts to explain the setup for a Wilson loop expectation result in lattice gauge theory

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.07719.pdf

3. Take a look at Alice Guionnet's 2006 ICM lecture notes, with some general discussion about relationships between matrices and planar maps.

http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM2006.3/Main/icm2006.3.0623.0636.ocr.pdf

Announced on 07 September 2017  11:50  p.m. by Scott Roger Sheffield