Occurrence of rare events in ergodic interacting spin systems

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 727-751

  Asselah, Amine ^a   Dai Pra, Paolo ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interacting spin systems; Large deviations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031521330     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0246-0203(97)80111-2     Document Type: Article

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