Comments on the renormalization group, scaling and measures of complexity

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-44

  West, Bruce J ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRACTALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RENORMALIZATION GROUP;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0141956118     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(03)00425-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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