目次

1. An Introductory Example: Independent Random Walks.- 2. Some Interacting Particle Systems.- 3. Weak Formulations of Local Equilibrium.- 4. Hydrodynamic Equation of Symmetric Simple Exclusion Processes.- 5. An Example of Reversible Gradient System: Symmetric Zero Range Processes.- 6. The Relative Entropy Method.- 7. Hydrodynamic Limit of Reversible Nongradient Systems.- 8. Hydrodynamic Limit of Asymmetric Attractive Processes.- 9. Conservation of Local Equilibrium for Attractive Systems.- 10. Large Deviations from the Hydrodynamic Limit.- 11. Equilibrium Fluctuations of Reversible Dynamics.- Appendices.- 1. Markov Chains on a Countable Space.- 1.1 Discrete Time Markov Chains.- 1.2 Continuous Time Markov Chains.- 1.3 Kolmogorov's Equations, Generators.- 1.4 Invariant Measures, Reversibility and Adjoint Processes.- 1.5 Some Martingales in the Context of Markov Processes.- 1.6 Estimates on the Variance of Additive Functionals of Markov Processes.- 1.7 The Feynman-Kac Formula.- 1.8 Relative Entropy.- 1.9 Entropy and Markov Processes.- 1.10 Dirichlet Form.- 1.11 A Maximal Inequality for Reversible Markov Processes.- 2. The Equivalence of Ensembles, Large Deviation Tools and Weak Solutions of Quasi-Linear Differential Equations.- 2.1 Local Central Limit Theorem and Equivalence of Ensembles.- 2.2 On the Local Central Limit Theorem.- 2.3 Remarks on Large Deviations.- 2.4 Weak Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations.- 2.5 Entropy Solutions of Quasi-Linear Hyperbolic Equations.- 3. Nongradient Tools: Spectral Gap and Closed Forms.- 3.1 On the Spectrum of Reversible Markov Processes.- 3.2 Spectral Gap for Generalized Exclusion Processes.- 3.4 Closed and Exact Forms.- 3.5 Comments and References.- References.