Extremes and recurrence in dynamical systems /
xi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - (Pure and applied mathematics: a Wiley series of texts, monographs, and tracts ) Content notes : 1. Introduction --
2. A framework for rare events in stochastic processes and dynamical systems --
3. Classical extreme value theory --
4. Emergence of extreme value laws for dynamical systems --
5. Hitting and return time statistics --
6. Extreme value theory for selected dynamical systems --
7. Extreme value theory for randomly perturbed dynamical systems --
8. A statistical mechanical point of view --
9. Extremes as dynamical and geometrical indicators --
10. Extremes as physical probes --
11. Conclusions --
Appendix A: Codes. Stochastic processes. Probabilities. Extreme value theory. Dynamics.
