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Proceedings of the Fourth USSR - Japan Symposium, held at Tbilisi, USSR, August 23-29, 1982. — Springer, 1983. — 795 p.The Fourth USSR-Japan Symposium on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics was held at Tbilisi, Soviet Union, August 23-29, 1982. Forty five probabilists from Japan and about 300 from the Soviet Union attended the symposium.This volume contains the papers presented by Japanese and Soviet participants to the Organizing Committee. Records of the meetings and lists of the organizing committee are attached at the end of the volume. In this symposium, many young probabilists participated and vigorous informal discussions took place.
The fourth symposium as well as the previous three ones was very fruitful and important for mathematicians of our countries and we hope it will give rise to many interesting investigations in future.The Fourth Symposium was organized by Steklov Mathematical Institute (Moscow), Sector of Mathematical Statistics of the Institute of Economics and Law (Tbilisi) and Tbilisi State University with support of the Academy of Sciences of USSR and the Academy of Sciences of Georgian SSR. It is a great pleasure for us to express our gratitude to the Local Organizing Committee (headed by Professor G.M. Mania) and all those who have contributed to the success of the symposium and to the preparation of this volume.