Traveling Waves, Front Selection, and Exact Nontrivial Exponents in a Random Fragmentation Problem

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 5492-5495

  Krapivsky, P L ^a,c   Majumdar, Satya N ^b,c  

^a Boston University ^*  (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PHYSICS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

RANDOM BINARY SEARCH TREES; RANDOM FRAGMENTATION PROBLEM; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; TRAVELING WAVE PROPAGATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0034510359     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5492     Document Type: Article

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