More Randomness of Environment Does Not Always Slow Down a Random Walk

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 699-715

  Takacs, Christiane ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Entropy; Random environment; Random walk; Speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035629762     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017593006635     Document Type: Article

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