Stochastic models of interacting systems

Annals of Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-29

  Liggett, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact processes; Exclusion processes; Stochastic Ising model; Voter models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031493470     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1024404276     Document Type: Article

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