The resulting set of equivalence classes can be metrized with the gromovprohorov metric of greven. Probability measures on metric spaces ams chelsea publishing. In this paper we are going to generalize gromovs mmreconstruction theorem cf. Examples of topics developed in more depth here than in most existing texts are the following. Equidistributed sequences of partitions and a theorem of. Gradient flows in metric spaces and in the space of. There is a natural topology on a probabilistic metric space, determined by the system of neighbourhoods. Semiflows on spaces of probability measures springerlink. This book with its choice of proofs, remarks, examples and exercises has been prepared taking both these aesthetic and practical aspects into account.
As described in the preface to that book, the importance of metric spaces for probability theory was empha sized by the. Menger in 1942 and has since been developed by a number of authors. Parthasarathy, probability measures on metric spaces, academic press 1967. After a general description of the basics of topology on the set of measures, he discusses regularity, tightness, and perfectness of measures, properties of sampling distributions, and metrizability and compactness theorems. And for this purpose, we give alternative proof of mmreconstruction theorem. The borel subsets of a metric space probability measures in a metric space probability measures in a metric group probability measures in locally compact abelian groups the kolmogorov consistency theorem and conditional probability probability measures in a hilbert space probability measures ov c0, 1 and d0, 1. Gradient flows in metric spaces and in the space of probability measures. Parthasarathy and others published probability measure on metric spaces find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Notes on metric spaces these notes introduce the concept of a metric space, which will be an essential notion throughout this course and in others that follow. Next, he describes arithmetic properties of probability measures on metric groups and locally compact abelian groups. Probabilistic metric space encyclopedia of mathematics. Weak convergence of probability measures in spaces of. Probability measures on metric spaces onno van gaans. Substantially extended and revised in cooperation with the coauthors.
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