Here are the changes between the first and second printings of the book Large Deviations for Performance Analysis

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  • Title page: Adam Shwartz is really at the Technion, and Alan Weiss is really at Bell Labs. No kidding. The back cover has it right. OK?

Download the corrections for Chapters 1-5. (303 Kbytes)

  • Pages 6,7 New acknowledgments, new pointers for updates
  • Page 9 A cosmetic change
  • Page 24 Typo in equation (1.13): y should be a. Also, the last equation on the page should have -\ell(a), not \ell(a)
  • Pages 31, 32 Minor clarification; typo in equation (2.3): e^{-nI...} should be e^{+nI...}
  • Page 59 Typo in last paragraph: (4.9) should be (4.8)
  • Pages 65, 66 Typos in Exercise 4.16 ("is" should be "be") and equation (4.16) ( (z_t) ds should be (z_s) ds)
  • Page 73 Clarification of first equation, and correction of a typo

Download the corrections for Chapter 6. (350 Kbytes)

  • Pages 132, 133, 139, 143, 147-152, 154-156 There are a number errors in this chapter, some really worth fixing. We suggest you download the corrections.

Download the corrections for Chapter 9-Appendix D. (535 Kbytes)

  • Page 251 Typo in equation below (9.19): missing 2 in denominator
  • Page 259 Typo in Example 10.4: frac 1 K should be 1/K
  • Page 262 Typo in equation 11.6: the condition in the first line should be x>0, or x=0 and y>0
  • Page 264 Typo in last two equations: In the first of these, I_0^T should be I_o^t. The line between the two equations should read "for t > 0 (see Definition 6.14) where". And in the second equation, F(x, y, t) should not have t>0 as a condition
  • Page 267 Typo in middle equation: numerator should be y + sqrt(y^2 + ...), not y^2 + sqrt(y + ...)
  • Page 286 Typo above (11.39): $\mu < \lambda$ should be $\lambda < \mu$. Also, last sentence of first paragraph of End Notes is poorly worded.
  • Page 335 Typo in equation 13.37: cosh(z) = (C-w)/x
  • Page 350 Typo in second line of Justification: verify, not verity
  • Page 379 Typo in equation (13.135): both roots should contain sums, not differences (y_i^2 + 4\lambda..., not y_i^2 - r\lambda...)
  • Page 386 End notes changed a bit
  • Page 417 Typo in third line: Malgouyres, not Malgouyers
  • Pages 425, 426 Mistake in equation (15.15): the right-hand minimization is also over {\lambda_1(1) \ge \mu_2 (1)}, and the next 3 lines of discussion should be removed. The paragraph at the bottom of 425 and top of 426 is changed to accommodate this new condition. Typo in equation (15.20): there should be an e_3 at the end of the first line
  • Pages 429-431 Exercise 15.11, last line, add "You might also use (15.24)." Page 430, last 3 lines, change B to D. Page 431, fifth line, change A to N.
  • Page 442 Typo in equation (15.54): V(y) should be V(y*)
  • Page 453 Typo in first line: mu should be \mu. Also typo in third paragraph: 2 log (\mu/\lambda) should be 2 log (\mu/2\lambda)
  • Page 455 Typos below (15.83): u_1 > 0 and u_2 > u_0 should be u_1 > u_2 > 0. Also, "u_1 = u_1" should be "u_1 = u_2"
  • Page 457 Typo in last equation: u_2, not u_0
  • Page 476 Typo: Definition A.52 should be Definition A.32, and should refer you forward to Definition A.52
  • Page 484 Typo just above Definition A.75: ...any book on real analysis..., not ...any book an real analysis...
  • Page 500 Typo: Equation (B.8) should be the one starting "L = ", not the one starting "T_t = "
  • Pages 517-520 Typo in equation (C.3): the first script l should be an f; mistake at the end of Theorem C.1, the equation "S\cap F = S\cap O" should just be the phrase "S\cap F". In the paragraph above Lemma C.4, the following phrase should appear: "With some abuse of notation, we will write $r\in G$ when we mean $(r, T_r)\in G$." In the proof of Lemma C.5, the countability of the required modifications follows from absolute continuity, not simply continuity.
  • Page 523 In the statement of Lemma C.9, change the phrase "the conditions of Lemma C.8" to "all the conditions of Lemma C.8"
  • Page 532 Typo just above exercise D.12: "if is possible" should read "it is possible"

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  • Pages 551-556 We made several changes to the index.

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