Spectral homogenization of reversible random walks on ℤ d in a random environment

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-56

  Boivin, D ^a   Depauw, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Difference operators; Dirichlet eigenvalues; Exit times; Random media

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037359778     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(02)00233-8     Document Type: Article

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