The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

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Johannes Voit

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets With 82 Figures and 5 Tables

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Dr. Johannes Voit Theoretische Physik 1 Universităt Bayreuth 95440 Bayreuth, Germany

Editors Roger Balian

Nicolai Reshetikhin

CEA Service de Physique Theorique de SacJay 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Department of Mathematics University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3840, USA

Wolf Beiglbock

Herbert Spohn

Institut fiir Angewandte Mathematik Universităt Heidelberg, INF 294 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Zentrum Mathematik Technische Universităt Miinchen 80290 Miinchen, Germany

Harald Grosse

Walter Thirring

Institut fiir Theoretische Physik Universităt Wien Boltzmanngasse 5 1090 Wien, Austria

Institut fiir Theoretische Physik Universităt Wien Boltzmanngasse 5 1090 Wien, Austria

Elliott H. Lieb Jadwin HaU Princeton University, P.O. Box 708 Princeton, NJ 08544-0708, USA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Voit, Johannes, 1957The statistical mechanics offinancial markets / Johannes Voit. p. em. -- (Texts and monographs in physies ISSN 0172-5998) Ineludes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-662-04425-4 ISBN 978-3-662-04423-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-0