A Fokker-Planck description for Parrondo's games

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5114, Issue , 2003, Pages 309-317

  Toral, R ^a   Amengual, P ^a   Mangioni, S ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Master equations; Parrondo paradox; Ratchets

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GAME THEORY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

FOKKER-PLANK EQUATION; PARRONDO GAMES; RATCHETS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0041823408     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.490173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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