Relationship of second-order lacunarity, Hurst exponent, Brownian motion, and pattern organization

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 328, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 315-321

  Feagin, R A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractional Brownian motion; Hurst; Lacunarity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

HURST EXPONENTS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 0141620363     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00524-7     Document Type: Article

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