Dynkin (Russian: Дынкин) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Dynkina. It may refer to the following notable people:
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Aleksandr Dynkin Alexander A. Dynkin (Russian: Александр Александрович Дынкин; born 30 June 1946) is a Russian economist whose research interests and publications have been in growth, forecasting, international comparisons, technological ...
, Russian economist
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Eugene Dynkin
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (russian: link=no, Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a USSR, Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especial ...
(1924–2014), Soviet and American mathematician known for
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Dynkin diagram
In the mathematical field of Lie theory, a Dynkin diagram, named for Eugene Dynkin, is a type of graph with some edges doubled or tripled (drawn as a double or triple line). Dynkin diagrams arise in the classification of semisimple Lie algebras ...
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Coxeter–Dynkin diagram
In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram (or Coxeter diagram, Coxeter graph) is a graph with numerically labeled edges (called branches) representing the spatial relations between a collection of mirrors (or reflecting hyperplanes). It describe ...
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Dynkin system
A Dynkin system, named after Eugene Dynkin is a collection of subsets of another universal set \Omega satisfying a set of axioms weaker than those of -algebra. Dynkin systems are sometimes referred to as -systems (Dynkin himself used this ter ...
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Dynkin's formula
In mathematics — specifically, in stochastic analysis — Dynkin's formula is a theorem giving the expected value of any suitably smooth statistic of an Itō diffusion at a stopping time. It may be seen as a stochastic generalization of ...
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Doob–Dynkin lemma
In probability theory, the Doob–Dynkin lemma, named after Joseph L. Doob and Eugene Dynkin (also known as the factorization lemma), characterizes the situation when one random variable is a function of another by the inclusion of the \sigma-a ...
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Dynkin index In mathematics, the Dynkin index I() of a finite-dimensional highest-weight representation of a compact simple Lie algebra \mathfrak g with highest weight \lambda is defined by
\text_= 2I(\lambda) \text_,
where V_0 is the 'defining representat ...
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Russian-language surnames