MATS3500 Malliavin Calculus meets Stein’s method (3 op)

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Stefan Geiss

Osaamistavoitteet

- Student has basic knowledge of Malliavin calculus and Stein’s method
- Student understands the use of combination of Malliavin calculus and Stein's method to prove central limit theorems

Suoritustavat

Lecture and written assignment

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- Preliminaries: Gaussian Random Vectors, Hermite Polynomials, Gaussian Processes.
- Fractional Brownian Motion.
- Malliavin Calculus in a Nutshell
- Stein’s Lemma
- Combining Stein’s Method with Malliavin Calculus
- Central Limit Theorems for Fractional Brownian motion

Kirjallisuus

ISBN-numero Tekijä, julkaisuvuosi, teoksen nimi, julkaisija
978-88-470-2823-4 Nourdin (2012): Selected aspects of fractional Brownian motion. Bocconi & Springer Series, 4. Springer, Milan; Bocconi University Press, Milan.
9781107017771 Nourdin, Peccati (2012): Normal approximations with Malliavin calculus: From Stein’s method to universality. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 192. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
978-3-540-28329-4 Nualart (2006): The Malliavin calculus and related topics (Probability and Its Applications). Second edition. Springer.

Arviointiperusteet

Student does an assignment, returns it to teacher and teacher evaluates whether pass or not.

Esitietovaatimukset

Basic background in Probability