Average shape of a fluctuation: Universality in excursions of stochastic processes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Baldassarri, Andrea ^a   Colaiori, Francesca ^a   Castellano, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FERROMAGNETISM; FUNCTIONS; GEOPHYSICS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BARKHAUSE NOISE; MAGNETIC SYSTEMS; SINGLE INCREMENT DISTRIBUTION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 0037435851     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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