Download or read book Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Statistics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets written by Hagen Kleinert and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topological restrictions. These are relevant to the understanding of the statistical properties of elementary particles and the entanglement phenomena in polymer physics and biophysics. The Chern-Simons theory of particles with fractional statistics (anyons) is introduced and applied to explain the fractional quantum Hall effect." "The relevance of path integrals to financial markets is discussed, and improvements of the famous Black-Scholes formula for option prices are developed which account for the fact that large market fluctuations occur much more frequently than in Gaussian distributions." --Book Jacket.