Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of symbols, conventions, and formulary
- PART I THE PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL ENVIRONMENT
- PART II QUANTUM MECHANICS
- PART III METHODS FROM DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
- PART IV NON-GAUSSIAN APPLICATIONS
- 12 Poisson processes in physics
- 13 A mathematical theory of Poisson processes
- 14 The first exit time; energy problems
- PART V PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
- PART VI PROJECTS
- APPENDICES
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - The first exit time; energy problems
from PART IV - NON-GAUSSIAN APPLICATIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of symbols, conventions, and formulary
- PART I THE PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL ENVIRONMENT
- PART II QUANTUM MECHANICS
- PART III METHODS FROM DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
- PART IV NON-GAUSSIAN APPLICATIONS
- 12 Poisson processes in physics
- 13 A mathematical theory of Poisson processes
- 14 The first exit time; energy problems
- PART V PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
- PART VI PROJECTS
- APPENDICES
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Functional IntegrationAction and Symmetries, pp. 268 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006