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1、THEPROBABILISTICMETHODTHEPROBABILISTICMETHODSecondedition,March2000,TelAvivandNewYorkNogaAlon,DepartmentofMathematics,RaymondandBeverlySacklerFacultyofExactSciences,TelAvivUniversity,TelAviv,Israel.JoelH.Spencer,CourantInstituteofMathematicalSciences,NewYorkUniversity,NewYork,USAAWiley
2、-IntersciencePublicationJOHNWILEY&SONS,INC.NewYork/Chichester/Weinheim/Brisbane/Singapore/TorontoToNuritandMaryAnnPrefaceTheProbabilisticMethodhasrecentlybeendevelopedintensivelyandbecameoneofthemostpowerfulandwidelyusedtoolsappliedinCombinatorics.Oneofthemajorreasonsforthisrapiddevelo
3、pmentistheimportantroleofrandomnessinTheoreticalComputerScience,aÞeldwhichisrecentlythesourceofmanyintriguingcombinatorialproblems.TheinterplaybetweenDiscreteMathematicsandComputerSciencesuggestsanalgorithmicpointofviewinthestudyoftheProbabilisticMethodinCombinatoricsandthisistheapproa
4、chwetriedtoadoptinthisbook.Themanuscriptthusincludesadiscussionofalgorithmictechniquestogetherwithastudyoftheclassicalmethodaswellasthemoderntoolsappliedinit.TheÞrstpartofthebookcontainsadescriptionofthetoolsappliedinprobabilisticarguments,includingthebasictechniquesthatuseexpectationa
5、ndvariance,aswellasthemorerecentapplicationsofMartingalesandCorrelationInequalities.Thesecondpartincludesastudyofvarioustopicsinwhichprobabilistictechniqueshavebeensuccessful.Thispartcontainschaptersondiscrepancyandrandomgraphs,aswellasonseveralareasinTheoreticalComputerScience;Circuit
6、Complexity,ComputationalGeometry,andDerandomizationofrandomizedalgorithms.Scatteredbetweenthechaptersaregemsdescribedundertheheading"TheProbabilisticLens".Theseareelegantproofsthatarenotnecessarilyrelatedtothechaptersafterwhichtheyappearandcanbeusuallyreadseparately.ThebasicProbabilist
7、icMethodcanbedescribedasfollows:inordertoprovetheexistenceofacombinatorialstructurewithcertainproperties,weconstructanappropriateprobabilityspaceandshowthatarandomlychosenelementinthisspacehasthedesiredpropertieswithpositiveprobability.ThismethodhasbeeninitiatedviiviiiPREFACEbyPaulEr