A martingale approach to directed polymers in a random environment

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 171-189

  Albeverio, Sergio ^a,b,c   Zhou, Xian Yin ^a,d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b BiBoS   (Germany)

^c CERFIM   (Switzerland)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Directed polymers; Martingales; Random environment; Random walks; Wiener process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039687978     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02213739     Document Type: Article

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