Table of contents : Cover Title ISBN Contents Introduction Notation 0 Preliminaries 0.1 Topology and measures 0.2 Tail inequalities 0.3 Filtrations and stopping times 0.4 Extensions of probability spaces 0.5 Bernoulli and canonical Gaussian and a-stable sequences 0.6 Gaussian measures on linear spaces 0.7 Modulars on linear spaces 0.8 Musielak-Orlicz spaces 0.9 Random Musielak-Orlicz spaces 0.10 Complements and comments Bibliographical notes 1 RANDOM SERIES 1 Basic Inequalities for Random Linear Forms in Independent Random Variables 1.1 Levy-Octaviani inequalities 1.2 Contraction inequalities 1.3 Moment inequalities 1.4 Complements and comments Best constants in the Levy-Octaviani inequality A contraction inequality for mixtures of Gaussian random variables Tail inequalities for Bernoulli and Gaussian random linear forms A refinement of the moment inequality Comparison of moments Bibliographical notes 2 Convergence of Series of Independent Random Variables 2.1 The Ito-Nisio Theorem 2.2 Convergence in the p-th mean 2.3 Exponential and other moments of random series 2.4 Random series in function spaces 2.5 An example: construction of the Brownian motion 2.6 Karhunen-Loeve representation of Gaussian measures 2.7 Complements and comments Rosenthal's inequalities Strong exponential moments of Gaussian series Lattice function spaces Convergence of Gaussian series Bibliographical notes 3 Domination Principles and Comparison of Sums of Independent Random Variables 3.1 Weak domination 3.2 Strong domination 3.3 Hypercontractive domination 3.4 Hypercontractivity of Bernoulli and Gaussian series 3.5 Sharp estimates of growth of p-th moments 3.6 Complements and comments More on C-domination Superstrong domination Domination of character systems on compact Abelian groups Random matrices Hypercontractivity of real random variables More precise estimates on strong exponential moments of Gaussian series Growth of p-th moments revisited More on strong exponential moments of series of bounded variables Bibliographical notes 4 Martingales 4.1 Doob's inequalities 4.2 Convergence of martingales 4.3 Tangent and decoupled sequences 4.4 Complements and comments Bibliographical notes 5 Domination Principles for Martingales 5.1 Weak domination 5.2 Strong domination 5.3 Burkholder's method: comparison of subordinated martingales 5.4 Comparison of strongly dominated martingales 5.5 Gaussian martingales 5.6 Classic martingale inequalities 5.7 Comparison of the a.s. convergence of series of tangent sequences 5.8 Complements and comments Tangency and ergodic theorems Burkholder's method for conditionally Gaussian and conditionally independent martingales Necessity of moderate growth of (p Comparison of Gaussian martingales revisited Comparing H-valued martingales with 2-D martingales The principle of conditioning in limit theorems Bibliographical notes 6 Random Multilinear Forms in Independent Random Variables and Polynomial Chaos 6.1 Basic definitions and properties 6.2 Maximal inequalities 6.3 Contraction inequalities and domination of polynomial chaos 6.4 Decoupling inequalities 6.5 Comparison of moments of polynomial chaos 6.6 Convergence of polynomial chaos 6.7 Quadratic chaos 6.8 Wiener chaos and Hermite polynomials 6.9 Complements and comments Tail and moment comparisons for chaos and its decoupled chaos Necessity of the symmetry condition in decoupling inequalities Karhunen-Loeve expansion for the Wiener chaos a-stable chaos of degree d > 2 Bibliographical notes II STOCHASTIC INTEGRALS 7 Integration with Respect to General Stochastic Measures 7.1 Construction of the integral 7.2 Examples of stochastic measures 7.3 Complements and comments An alternative definition of m-integrability Bibliographical notes 8 Deterministic Integrands 8.1 Discrete stochastic measure 8.2 Processes with independent increments and their characteristics 8.3 Integration with respect to a general independently scattered measure 8.4 Complements and comments Stochastic measures with finite p-th. moments Bibliographical notes 9 Predictable Integrands 9.1 Integration with respect to processes with independent increments: Decoupling inequalities approach 9.2 Brownian integrals 9.3 Characteristics of semimartingales 9.4 Semimartingale integrals 9.5 Complements and comments The Bichteler-Dellacherie Theorem Semimartingale integrals in Lp a-stable integrals Bibliographical notes 10 Multiple Stochastic Integrals 10.1 Products of stochastic measures 10.2 Structure of double integrals 10.3 Wiener polynomial chaos revisited 10.4 Complements and comments Multiple a-stable integrals Bibliographical notes A Unconditional and Bounded Multiplier Convergence of Random Series A.l Convergence in probability and in the p-th moment A.2 Almost sure convergence A.3 Complements and comments A hypercontractive view Bibliographical notes B Vector Measures B.l Extensions of vector measures B.2 Boundedness and control measure of stochastic measures B.3 Complements and comments Bibliographical notes Bibliography Index