First passage time problem for biased continuous-time random walks

Fractals

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-145

  Rangarajan, Govindan ^a,c   Ding, Mingzhou ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 0013194688     PISSN: 0218348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218348X00000159     Document Type: Article

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