These proceedings of the first Quantum Probability meeting held in Oberwolfach is the fourth in a series begun with the 1982 meeting of Mondragone and continued in Heidelberg ('84) and in Leuven ('85).
This book presents a rigorous mathematical treatment of the theory of pricing and hedging of derivative securities by the principle of "e;no arbitrage"e;.
Author's Note: The material of this book has been reworked and expanded with a lot more detail and published in the author's 2014 book "e;Upper and Lower Bounds for Stochastic Processes"e; (Ergebnisse Vol.
To some extent, it would be accurate to summarize the contents of this book as an intolerably protracted description of what happens when either one raises a transition probability matrix P (i.