Global culture: A noise-induced transition in finite systems

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4 2, 2003, Pages 451011-451014

  Klemm, Konstantin ^a,b,c   Eguíluz, Víctor M ^a   Toral, Raú ^a   Miguel, Maxi San ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FINITE SYSTEMS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038204352     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.67.045101     Document Type: Review

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