A strong law of large numbers for iterated functions of independent random variables

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 1373-1384

  Wehr, Jan ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Disordered systems; Hierarchical models; Law of large numbers; Martingales; Self averaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031091627     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02183629     Document Type: Article

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