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 1948) is a Russian economist whose research interests and publications have been in growth, forecasting, international comparisons, technologica ...
(born 1948), Russian economist
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Eugene Dynkin
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynk ...
(1924–2014), Soviet and American mathematician known for
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Dynkin diagram
In the Mathematics, mathematical field of Lie theory, a Dynkin diagram, named for Eugene Dynkin, is a type of Graph (discrete mathematics), graph with some edges doubled or tripled (drawn as a double or triple line). Dynkin diagrams arise in the ...
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Coxeter–Dynkin diagram
In geometry, a Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Coxeter–Eugene Dynkin, Dynkin diagram (or Coxeter diagram, Coxeter graph) is a Graph (discrete mathematics), graph with numerically labeled edges (called branches) representing a Coxeter group or ...
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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 term ...
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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 function applied to a Feller process at a stopping time. It may be seen as a stochastic generalizati ...
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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-al ...
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Dynkin index In mathematics, the Dynkin index I() of finite-dimensional highest-weight representations of a compact simple Lie algebra \mathfrak g relates their trace forms via
\frac= \frac.
In the particular case where \lambda is the highest root, so that ...
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Russian-language surnames