A note on transience versus recurrence for a branching random walk in random environment

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 587-614

  Den Hollander, F ^a   Menshikov, M V ^b,d   Popov, S Yu ^c,d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Branching random walk in random environment; Transience versus recurrences hitting probability estimates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033121354     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004539225064     Document Type: Article

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